Farm Norwood (Triassic of South Africa)

Where: Eastern Cape, South Africa (31.6° S, 26.4° E: paleocoordinates 67.3° S, 14.9° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Cynognathus subzone C other zone, Burgersdorp Formation (Beaufort Group), Anisian (247.2 - 242.0 Ma)

• Fossils are from the uppermost 150 m of the Burgerdorp Formation: the "Cynognathus Assemblage Zone, Subzone C"

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; siliciclastic sediments

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Hancox; reposited in the BPI

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

Primary reference: F. Abdala, P. J. Hancox, and J. Neveling. 2005. Cynodonts from the uppermost Burgersdorp Formation, South Africa, and their bearing on the biostratigraphy and correlation of the Triassic Cynognathus Assemblage Zone. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 25(1):192-199 [R. Butler/R. Butler]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 105294: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Richard Butler on 18.02.2011

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Osteichthyes
 Therapsida -
Diademodon sp. Seeley 1895 cynodont
BP/1/5541, almost complete lower jaw
 Therapsida - Trirachodontidae
Cricodon metabolus Crompton 1955 cynodont
BP/1/6102, snout with postcanine tooth row