Kraai River (Triassic of South Africa)

Where: Eastern Cape, South Africa (30.8° S, 27.0° E: paleocoordinates 67.2° S, 12.5° W)

• coordinate based on unpublished field data

When: Stormberg Group, Anisian (247.2 - 242.0 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithified, red shale

• "hard red shale"

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by H. G. Seeley, W. G. Atherstone, T. Bain, A. Brown in 1889; reposited in the BMNH

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

Primary reference: H. G. Seeley. 1892. Contribution to a knowledge of the Saurischia of Europe and Africa. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London 48:188-191 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 163814: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 13.11.2014

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Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Diapsida - Erythrosuchidae
Erythrosuchus africanus Broom 1905 archosauromorph
cervical vertebra, rib, jaw (but jaw has "Megalosaurus"-like teeth)