Bergendal Farm (Triassic of South Africa)

Where: Northern Cape, South Africa (31.2° S, 25.0° E: paleocoordinates 64.3° S, 22.9° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Lystrosaurus other zone, Katberg Formation (Beaufort Group), Induan (252.2 - 251.2 Ma)

• Stratigraphically low within (close to base of) the Katberg Formation; Lystrosaurus Assemblage Zone

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; conglomerate

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: surface (in situ), mechanical,

• NM: National Museum, Bloemfontein

Primary reference: S. P. Modesto, D. M. Scott, J. Botha-Brink and R. R. Reisz. 2010. A new and unusual procolophonid parareptile from the Lower Triassic Katberg Formation of South Africa. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 30(3):715-723 [R. Butler/R. Butler]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 105718: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Richard Butler on 24.02.2011

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Parareptilia - Procolophonidae
Phonodus dutoitorum n. gen. n. sp.
Phonodus dutoitorum n. gen. n. sp. Modesto et al. 2010 parareptile
NMQR 356, partial skull
Osteichthyes
 Dicynodontia - Lystrosauridae
? Lystrosaurus declivis Brink 1951 dicynodont
Lystrosaurus murrayi Huxley 1859 dicynodont
 Therocephalia - Lycideopidae
Tetracynodon darti Sigogneau 1963 therapsid
NMQR 3597, skull