Where: Free State, South Africa (30.5° S, 26.0° E: paleocoordinates 64.8° S, 20.5° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Lystrosaurus Assemblage Zone other zone, Palingkloof Member (Balfour Formation), Induan (252.2 - 251.2 Ma)
• Lystrosaurus Assemblage Zone, lower part.
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; siliciclastic sediments
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by Kitching; reposited in the BPI
Collection methods: chemical, mechanical, acetic,
• SAM: Iziko South African Museum, Cape Town
Primary reference: J. Botha and R. M. H. Smith. 2007. Lystrosaurus species composition across the Permo–Triassic boundary in the Karoo Basin of South Africa. Lethaia 40:125-137 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 195278: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 01.08.2018
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Osteichthyes | |
Lystrosaurus murrayi Huxley 1859 dicynodont
Lystrosaurus declivis Brink 1951 dicynodont
Lystrosaurus curvatus Owen 1876 dicynodont |