Skerpioenkraal, Middelburg (Triassic to of South Africa)

Where: Eastern Cape, South Africa (31.5° S, 25.0° E: paleocoordinates 65.2° S, 21.6° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Lystrosaurus Assemblage 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

Primary reference: M. D. Ezcurra and R. J. Butler. 2015. Taxonomy of the proterosuchid archosauriforms (Diapsida: Archosauromorpha) from the earliest Triassic of South Africa, and implications for the early archosauriform radiation. Palaeontology 58(1):141-170 [R. Butler/R. Butler]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 182579: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Richard Butler on 08.11.2016, edited by Bethany Allen

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Taxonomic list

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Reptilia
 Diapsida - Proterosuchidae
Proterosuchidae indet.
Proterosuchidae indet. Broom 1906 archosauromorph
SAM-PK-K139
Osteichthyes
 Therocephalia - Akidnognathidae
Olivierosuchus parringtoni1, Moschorhinus kitchingi2
Olivierosuchus parringtoni1 Brink 1965 therapsid
SAM-PK-K117, skull, lower jaw and postcranial fragments
Moschorhinus kitchingi2 Broom 1920 therapsid
NMQR 3568, skull, vertebrae and pectoral girdle; SAM-PK-K119, snout and postcranial fragments
1Brink and Modesto 2011; 2Huttenlocker and Botha-Brink 2013