Thaba Nchu Commonage, Lystrosaurus Assemblage Zone (Triassic to of South Africa)

Where: Free State, South Africa (29.2° S, 26.8° E: paleocoordinates 65.1° S, 15.0° 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; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the BMNH

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 181690: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Richard Butler on 28.09.2016, edited by Bethany Allen

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Taxonomic list

Osteichthyes
 Dicynodontia - Lystrosauridae
Lystrosaurus murrayi Huxley 1859 dicynodont
Lystrosaurus declivis Brink 1951 dicynodont
Lystrosaurus maccaigi Seeley 1898 dicynodont
 Therocephalia - Akidnognathidae
Moschorhinus kitchingi1 Broom 1920 therapsid
UCMP 42787, skull, partial lower jaw, anterior postcrania
 Therapsida -
Thrinaxodon liorhinus n. gen. n. sp.2
Thrinaxodon liorhinus n. gen. n. sp.2 Seeley 1894 cynodont
BMNH R 511 a complete skull with lower jaw