Matyantya basin, Lady Frere (Triassic of South Africa)

Also known as Middelkop

Where: Eastern Cape, South Africa (31.7° S, 27.2° E: paleocoordinates 67.9° S, 13.8° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

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

• Only stratigraphic information provided was "middle Cynognathus zone". The Cynognathus zone spans the Olenekian-Anisian, but its middle part (subzone B) is early Anisian in age

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the BPI

Primary reference: A. S. Brink. 1963. On Bauria cynops Broom. Palaeontologia africana 8:39-56 [R. Butler/R. Butler]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 101957: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Richard Butler on 05.01.2011, edited by Bethany Allen

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Osteichthyes
 Therocephalia - Nothogomphodontidae
Microgomphodon oligocynus1 Seeley 1895 therapsid
 Therocephalia - Bauriidae
Bauria cynops Broom 1909 therapsid
BP/1/317, skull and portion of skeleton (field number F1180)
 Dicynodontia -
"Kannemeyeria simocephalus" = Kannemeyeria simocephala2
"Kannemeyeria simocephalus" = Kannemeyeria simocephala2 Weithofer 1888 dicynodont
 Therapsida -
Diademodon tetragonus2 Seeley 1894 cynodont
Cynognathus crateronotus2 Seeley 1895 cynodont