Wonderkrantz (Triassic of South Africa)

Where: Free State, South Africa (28.3° S, 29.1° E: paleocoordinates 65.8° S, 12.3° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Lystrosaurus Assemblage Zone other zone, Harrismith Member (Normandien Formation), Induan (252.2 - 251.2 Ma)

• Lower part of the Lystrosaurus Assemblage Zone, of probable Induan age

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; siliciclastic sediments

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the BPI, UCMP

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 144328: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Richard Butler on 03.05.2013

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Taxonomic list

Osteichthyes
 Therocephalia - Lycideopidae
Tetracynodon darti Sigogneau 1963 therapsid
BP/1/4568, UCMP 42869, 42881, 42882, 78395, 78396, 78394
Amphibia
 Temnospondyli - Amphibamidae
Micropholis stowi Huxley 1859 tetrapod
UCMP 42879, skull roof. UCMP 173220, palate