Queenstown (Triassic of South Africa)

Where: Eastern Cape, South Africa (31.9° S, 26.9° E: paleocoordinates 67.0° S, 19.3° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Cynognathus Assemblage Zone Subzone A other zone, Burgersdorp Formation (Beaufort Group), Spathian (251.3 - 247.2 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithified, calcareous sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: SAM: Iziko South African Museum, Cape Town

Primary reference: S. H. Haughton. 1915. Investigations in South African fossil reptiles and Amphibia. On a new species of Trematosaurus (T. sobeyi). Annals of the South African Museum 12:47-51 [R. Butler/R. Butler]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 144330: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Richard Butler on 03.05.2013

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Amphibia
 Temnospondyli - Trematosauridae
"Trematosaurus sobeyi n. sp." = Trematosuchus sobeyi
"Trematosaurus sobeyi n. sp." = Trematosuchus sobeyi Haughton 1915 tetrapod
SAM-PK-2979, nearly complete skull (holotype); SAM-PK-5136