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 | |
Lystrosaurus murrayi, "Lystrosaurus platyceps" = Lystrosaurus curvatus
Lystrosaurus murrayi Huxley 1859 dicynodont
"Lystrosaurus platyceps" = Lystrosaurus curvatus Owen 1876 dicynodont | |
Reptilia | |
"Proterosuchus vanhoepeni" = Proterosuchus fergusi
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Amphibia | |
Micropholis stowi Huxley 1859 tetrapod NMQR 3382, small adult skull and anterior postcranial skeleton
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