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 | |
"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
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