Where: Eastern Cape, South Africa (31.7° S, 27.9° E: paleocoordinates 68.4° S, 12.9° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Cynognathus subzone B other zone, Burgersdorp Formation, Anisian (247.2 - 242.0 Ma)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithified, gray sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by P. W. Laidler
Collection methods: mechanical,
• AM: Albany Museum, Grahamstown
Primary reference: J. W. Kitching. 1957. A new small stereospondylus labyrinthodont from the Triassic beds of South Africa. Palaeontologia Africana 5:67-82 [R. Butler/R. Butler]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 144122: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Richard Butler on 01.05.2013
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Osteichthyes | |
Diademodon sp. Seeley 1895 cynodont | |
Kannemeyeriidae indet. Huene 1948 dicynodont | |
Amphibia | |
Laidleria gracilis n. gen. n. sp.
Laidleria gracilis n. gen. n. sp. Kitching 1957 tetrapod AM 4313, skull and anterior postcranial skeleton
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