Verdun Farm, Paul roux (Triassic of South Africa)

Where: Free State, South Africa (28.3° S, 28.0° E: paleocoordinates 65.5° S, 10.8° 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)

• Cynognathus Assemblage Zone, Subzone A, late Olenekian in age

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; gray sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: surface (float), mechanical,

• NMQR: National Museum, Bloemfontein

Primary reference: M. A. Shishkin and J. Welman. 1994. A new find of Trematosuchus (Amphibia, Temnospondyli) from the Cynognathus Zone of South Africa. Palaeontologia africana 31:39-49 [R. Butler/R. Butler]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 144331: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Richard Butler on 03.05.2013, edited by Bethany Allen

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Amphibia
 Temnospondyli - Trematosauridae
Trematosuchoides africanus Novikov 2012 tetrapod
NMQR 3263A, B, two fragments of a single skull