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
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Osteichthyes | |
Lystrosaurus murrayi Huxley 1859 dicynodont | |
"Nythosaurus larvatus n. sp." = Thrinaxodon liorhinus
"Nythosaurus larvatus n. sp." = Thrinaxodon liorhinus Seeley 1894 cynodont |