Wapadsberg Area (Lystrosaurus Assemblage Zone) (Triassic to of South Africa)

Where: Eastern Cape, South Africa (31.9° S, 24.9° E: paleocoordinates 65.3° S, 22.6° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

When: Lystrosaurus Asssemblage Zone zone, Induan to Induan (252.2 - 247.2 Ma)

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 177605: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Juan Benito Moreno on 06.04.2016, edited by Bethany Allen

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Osteichthyes
 Dicynodontia - Lystrosauridae
Lystrosaurus declivis Brink 1951 dicynodont
Lystrosaurus murrayi Huxley 1859 dicynodont
Lystrosaurus curvatus Owen 1876 dicynodont
 Therocephalia - Scaloposauridae
 Therapsida -
"Thrinaxodon liorhinus" = Thrinaxodon liorhinus2, "Notictosaurus luckhoffi n. gen. n. sp." = Thrinaxodon liorhinus1
"Thrinaxodon liorhinus" = Thrinaxodon liorhinus2 Seeley 1894 cynodont
SAM-PK-K10016, SAM-PK-K10017, SAM-PK-K11340
"Notictosaurus luckhoffi n. gen. n. sp." = Thrinaxodon liorhinus1 Seeley 1894 cynodont