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 | |
Phonodus dutoitorum n. gen. n. sp.
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Osteichthyes | |
? Lystrosaurus declivis Brink 1951 dicynodont
Lystrosaurus murrayi Huxley 1859 dicynodont | |
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