Old Lootsberg Pass (Triassic of South Africa)

Where: Eastern Cape, South Africa (31.8° S, 24.9° E: paleocoordinates 64.6° S, 24.3° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Lystrosaurus other zone, Katberg Formation (Beaufort Group), Induan (252.2 - 251.2 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: dry floodplain; massive, paleosol/pedogenic, nodular, brown, red siltstone and conglomeratic sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by R. Smith in 1998

Collection methods: mechanical,

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 195281: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 01.08.2018, edited by Bethany Allen

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Osteichthyes
 Therocephalia - Akidnognathidae
Moschorhinus kitchingi Broom 1920 therapsid
BP/1/3932, anterior skull
 Dicynodontia - Lystrosauridae
Lystrosaurus declivis Brink 1951 dicynodont