Zeekoeigat, Venterstad (Triassic to of South Africa)

Where: Eastern Cape, South Africa (30.8° S, 25.8° E: paleocoordinates 65.3° S, 19.3° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

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

• Low in Lystrosaurus zone (Cruickshank 1972)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Kitching

Primary reference: C. H. Mendrez. 1972. On the skull of Regisaurus jacobi, a new genus and species of Bauriamorpha Watson and Romer 1956 (=Scaloposauria Boonstra 1953), from the Lystrosaurus-zone of South Africa. In K. A. Joysey, T. S. Kemp (eds.), Studies in Vertebrate Evolution [R. Butler/R. Butler]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 105610: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Richard Butler on 23.02.2011, edited by Bethany Allen

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Osteichthyes
 Therapsida -
Galesaurus planiceps5 Owen 1860 cynodont
NMQR 135, collection of skulls and assorted postcrania
Thrinaxodon liorhinus5 Seeley 1894 cynodont
NMQR 23 (HVD 23), 24 (HVD 24)
 Therapsida - Procynosuchidae
"Procynosuchus rubidgei" = Procynosuchus delaharpeae2
"Procynosuchus rubidgei" = Procynosuchus delaharpeae2 Broom 1937 cynodont
RC 132, small skull
 Dicynodontia - Lystrosauridae
Lystrosaurus murrayi5 Huxley 1859 dicynodont
Lystrosaurus curvatus5 Owen 1876 dicynodont
Lystrosaurus maccaigi5 Seeley 1898 dicynodont
Lystrosaurus declivis5 Brink 1951 dicynodont
 Therocephalia -
Regisaurus jacobi n. gen. n. sp.
Regisaurus jacobi n. gen. n. sp. Mendrez 1972 therapsid
Skull, posterior left dentary and partial postcranium
 Therocephalia - Akidnognathidae
Olivierosuchus parringtoni1 Brink 1965 therapsid
NMQR 62 (HVD 62)
Moschorhinus kitchingi4 Broom 1920 therapsid
NMQR 48, skull, lower jaw, partial postcranial skeleton
 Therocephalia - Scaloposauridae
Reptilia
 Diapsida - Proterosuchidae
"Chasmatosaurus alexanderi n. sp." = Proterosuchus alexanderi3
"Chasmatosaurus alexanderi n. sp." = Proterosuchus alexanderi3 Hoffman 1965 archosauromorph
NMQR 1484 (C. 3016), skull and postcranial skeleton