East side of Commissie Drift, Caledon River, Smithfield (Triassic to of South Africa)

Where: Free State, South Africa (30.2° S, 26.5° E: paleocoordinates 65.5° S, 17.3° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Lystrosaurus Assemblage Zone other zone, Beaufort Group, Induan to Induan (252.2 - 247.2 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; siliciclastic sediments

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the BMNH

Primary reference: R. Owen. 1876. Descriptive and Illustrated catalogue of the Fossil Reptilia of South Africa in the Collection of the British Museum of Natural History. [H. Sims/J. Camp]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 181689: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Richard Butler on 28.09.2016

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Taxonomic list

Osteichthyes
 Dicynodontia - Lystrosauridae
Lystrosaurus murrayi Huxley 1859 dicynodont
 Therapsida -
"Nythosaurus larvatus n. sp." = Thrinaxodon liorhinus
"Nythosaurus larvatus n. sp." = Thrinaxodon liorhinus Seeley 1894 cynodont