Bethulie Commonage (Lystrosaurus Assemblage Zone) (Triassic to of South Africa)

Where: Free State, South Africa (30.5° S, 26.0° E: paleocoordinates 65.3° S, 18.5° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; siliciclastic sediments

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: NM QR: National Museum, Bloemfontein

Primary reference: R. R. Schoch and B. S. Rubidge. 2005. The amphibamid Micropholis from the Lystrosaurus Assemblage Zone of South Africa. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 25(3):502-522 [R. Butler/R. Butler]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 144326: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Richard Butler on 03.05.2013, edited by Juan Benito Moreno

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Osteichthyes
 Dicynodontia - Lystrosauridae
Lystrosaurus murrayi, "Lystrosaurus platyceps" = Lystrosaurus curvatus
Lystrosaurus murrayi Huxley 1859 dicynodont
"Lystrosaurus platyceps" = Lystrosaurus curvatus Owen 1876 dicynodont
Reptilia
 Diapsida - Proterosuchidae
"Proterosuchus vanhoepeni" = Proterosuchus fergusi
"Proterosuchus vanhoepeni" = Proterosuchus fergusi Broom 1903 archosauromorph
BP/1/4224
Amphibia
 Temnospondyli - Amphibamidae
Micropholis stowi Huxley 1859 tetrapod
NMQR 3382, small adult skull and anterior postcranial skeleton