Also known as Winaarsbaken, Winnaars Baken
Where: Eastern Cape, South Africa (30.9° S, 26.1° E: paleocoordinates 66.7° S, 13.9° W)
• coordinate based on political unit
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Cynognathus assemblage, subzone B zone, Burgersdorp Formation (Beaufort Group), Anisian (247.2 - 242.0 Ma)
• "Subzone B of the Cynognathus Assemblage Zone, Beaufort Group, Middle Triassic (Anisian)." (Modesto & Damiani, 2003). This biostratigraphic assignment corresponds to the Burgersdorp Formation (see Catuneanu et al., 2005, J. African Earth Sci. 43).
Environment/lithology: dry floodplain; siliciclastic sediments
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by J. W. Kitching; reposited in the BMNH, BPI
Primary reference: F. v. Huene. 1911. Über Erythrosuchus, Vertreter der neuen Reptil-Ordnung Pelycosimia. Geologische und Paläontologische Abhandlungen, Neue Folge 10(1):1-60 [R. Butler/R. Butler/R. Butler]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 92312: authorized by Johannes Mueller, entered by Torsten Liebrecht on 05.11.2009, edited by Richard Butler
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Taxonomic list
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Erythrosuchus africanus Broom 1905 archosauromorph BMNH R 3592, incomplete but extensive skull, mandible, and postcranial material of single individual, with at least some metacarpals from a second smaller individual. BPI 2096, right pes. BMNH R8667, five mid-dorsal vertebrae
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"Thelegnathus contritus n. sp." = Thelephon contritus3
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"Kannemeyeria simocephalus" = Kannemeyeria simocephala5
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Amphibia | |
"Xenotosuchus africanus" = Xenotosuchus africanus4, "? Wellesaurus africanus" = Xenotosuchus africanus2
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