Brakfontein 333: Olenekian, South Africa
collected by G. Groenewald

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia - Procolophonidae
Coletta seca n. gen., n. sp. Gow 2000
1 individual
GHG 228 (type)
see common names

Geography
Country:South Africa State/province:Eastern Cape County:Inxuba Yethemba
Coordinates: 32.2° South, 26.1° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:66.6° South, 20.9° West
Basis of coordinate:based on political unit
Geographic resolution:hand sample
Time
Period:Triassic Epoch:Early/Lower Triassic
Stage:Olenekian 10 m.y. bin:Triassic 1
Key time interval:Olenekian Zone: Lystrosaurus Assemblage
Age range of interval:251.20000 - 247.20000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Beaufort Formation:Katberg
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: " [...] Lystrosaurus assemblage Zone, Katberg Formation, Beaufort Group (lowermost Triassic)." (Modesto et al., 2002).
Botha et al. (2007) note that this occurrence is from the Olenekian part of the Lystrosaurus AZ.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified quartzite
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: "recalcitrant, quartzite rich matrix"
Environment:terrestrial indet. Tectonic setting:foreland basin
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Articulated whole bodies:none
Associated major elements:all
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:mechanical,survey of museum collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collectors:G. Groenewald
Collection method comments: GHG = Council for Geosciences, Pretoria
Metadata
Database number:78686
Authorizer:J. Mueller Enterer:J. Dummasch
Modifier:R. Butler Research group:vertebrate
Created:2008-02-14 02:31:44 Last modified:2015-07-09 04:14:03
Access level:authorizer only Released:2011-02-14 02:31:44
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

26461. S.P. Modesto, R. J. Damiani, and H.-D. Sues. 2002. A reappraisal of Coletta seca, a basal procolophonoid reptile from the Lower Triassic of South Africa. Palaeontology 45(5):883-895 [J. Mueller/J. Dummasch]

Secondary references:

55754 J. Botha, S. P. Modesto, and R. M. H. Smith. 2007. Extended procolophonoid reptile survivorship after the end-Permian extinction. South African Journal of Science 103:54-56 [R. Butler/R. Butler]
32269 C. E. Gow. 2000. A New Procolophonid (Parareptilia) from the Lystrosaurus Assemblage Zone, Beaufort Group, South Africa. Palaeontologia Africana 36:21-23 [J. Mueller/T. Liebrecht]