Zylsfontein, Senekal (Triassic of South Africa)

Where: Free State, South Africa (28.3° S, 27.6° E: paleocoordinates 65.3° S, 11.3° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: GHG, Council for Geoscience, Pretoria

Primary reference: M. A. Shishkin, B. S. Rubidge, J. Hanox and J. Welman. 2004. Re-evaluation of Kestrosaurus Haughton, a capitosaurid temnospondyl amphibian from the Upper Beaufort Group of South Africa. Russian Journal of Herpetology 11(2):121-138 [R. Butler/R. Butler]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 145594: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Richard Butler on 06.06.2013

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Taxonomic list

Amphibia
 Temnospondyli - Mastodonsauridae
Kestrosaurus sp. Haughton 1925 tetrapod
GHG 126, partial skull