Big Bank, Harrismith (Triassic to of South Africa)

Also known as UCMP V36115

Where: Free State, South Africa (28.3° S, 29.1° E: paleocoordinates 66.1° S, 10.2° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Lystrosaurus Assemblage Zone other zone, Beaufort Group, Induan to Induan (252.2 - 247.2 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the UCMP

Primary reference: S. P. Modesto and H.-D. Sues. 2004. The skull of the Early Triassic archosauromorph reptile Prolacerta broomi and its phylogenetic significance. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 140:335-351 [R. Butler/R. Butler]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 105607: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Richard Butler on 23.02.2011

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Diapsida - Prolacertidae
Prolacerta broomi Parrington 1935 archosauromorph
UCMP 37151, complete skull with articulated cervical vertebrae
Osteichthyes
 Dicynodontia - Lystrosauridae
Lystrosaurus declivis Brink 1951 dicynodont
Lystrosaurus murrayi Huxley 1859 dicynodont
 Therapsida -
Thrinaxodon liorhinus Seeley 1894 cynodont
UCMP 42877, 42878, 46466, 42865, skulls