Also known as Elandsburg
Where: Eastern Cape, South Africa (32.1° S, 25.7° E: paleocoordinates 65.4° S, 24.1° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Lystrosaurus Assemblage Zone zone, Katberg Formation (Beaufort Group), Induan (252.2 - 251.2 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: J. W. Kitching. 1977. The distribution of the Karroo vertebrate fauna. Memoirs of the Bernard Price Institute for Palaeontological Research 1:1-131 [H. Sims/J. Camp]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 176503: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Juan Benito Moreno on 15.02.2016
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Osteichthyes | |
Lystrosaurus murrayi, "Dicynodon curvatus n. sp." = Lystrosaurus curvatus, Lystrosaurus declivis, Lystrosaurus maccaigi n. sp.
Lystrosaurus murrayi Huxley 1859 dicynodont
"Dicynodon curvatus n. sp." = Lystrosaurus curvatus Owen 1876 dicynodont NMHUK R3792, a laterally crushed skull
Lystrosaurus declivis Brink 1951 dicynodont |