Where: Eastern Cape, South Africa (30.7° S, 26.7° E: paleocoordinates 66.9° S, 12.6° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Cynognathus Assemblage Zone Subzone B zone, Burgersdorp Formation (Beaufort Group), Anisian (247.2 - 242.0 Ma)
• Cynognathus Assemblage Zone Subzone B of early Anisian age
• member-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by A. Brown
• SAM: Iziko South African Museum, Cape Town
Primary reference: R. Damiani. 2004. Cranial anatomy and relationships of Microposaurus casei, a temnospondyl from the Middle Triassic of South Africa. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 24(3):533-541 [M. Clapham/C. Feng/R. Butler]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 144344: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Richard Butler on 04.05.2013
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Howesia browni n. gen. n. sp.2
Howesia browni n. gen. n. sp.2 Broom 1905 rhynchosaur SAM 5884 (type, "specimen A"), 5885 ("specimen B"), 5886 ("specimen C"); presence of at least two individuals is indicated by the presence of two skulls
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| Osteichthyes | |
"Karoomys browni n. gen. n. sp." = Cynognathus crateronotus1
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| Amphibia | |
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