Elucwecwe (Triassic of South Africa)

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
 Therapsida -
Diademodon sp. Seeley 1895 cynodont
 Dicynodontia - Kannemeyeriidae
Kannemeyeriidae indet. Huene 1948 dicynodont
Amphibia
 Temnospondyli -
Laidleria gracilis n. gen. n. sp.
Laidleria gracilis n. gen. n. sp. Kitching 1957 tetrapod
AM 4313, skull and anterior postcranial skeleton