Platkop (Triassic of South Africa)

Where: Free State, South Africa (28.5° S, 27.8° E: paleocoordinates 65.5° S, 11.3° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Cynognathus Assemblage Zone Subzone A other zone, Burgersdorp Formation (Beaufort Group), Olenekian (251.2 - 247.2 Ma)

• Lower horizons of the Burgersdorp Formation; Cynognathus Assemblage Zone Subzone A; late Olenekian age

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: fluvial; siliciclastic sediments

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by P. J. Hancox; reposited in the BPI

Collection methods: surface (float), surface (in situ), mechanical,

Primary reference: D. J. Gower, P. J. Hancox, J. Botha-Brink, A. G. Sennikov, and R. J. Butler. 2014. A New Species of Garjainia Ochev, 1958 (Diapsida: Archosauriformes: Erythrosuchidae) from the Early Triassic of South Africa. PLoS ONE 9(11):e111154 [R. Butler/R. Butler]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 182944: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Richard Butler on 29.11.2016

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Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Diapsida - Erythrosuchidae
Garjainia madiba Gower et al. 2014 archosauromorph
BP/1/7215