Manhaar Hill (Triassic of South Africa)

Also known as Barendskraal Farm, Klipfontein 234

Where: Eastern Cape, South Africa (31.7° S, 25.0° E: paleocoordinates 64.7° S, 23.9° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• hand sample-level geographic resolution

When: Lystrosaurus Assemblage zone, Palingkloof Member (Balfour Formation), Induan (252.2 - 251.2 Ma)

• "As BP/1/6025 was found 12 m below the base of the Katberg Formation, it can be positioned roughly 28 m above the PTB [...] Palingkloof Member of Balfour Formation, Beaufort Group; Lystrosaurus Assemblage Zone, Early Triassic"

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: fluvial; red mudstone

• "These deposits are indicative of broad, shallow, unconfined channels, subjected to pulsatory flow, and are identical in fluvial style to the sheetflow sandstones described elsewhere for Lower Triassic deposits of the Balfour Formation (Smith, 1995; Ward et al., 2000)"
• "red and maroon mudstones [...] The Palingkloof here is characterized by thick mudstone packages separated by thin (< 1.5 m) sandstone sheets that are bounded by flat, erosional bases."

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: S.P. Modesto, R. J. Damiani, J. Neveling and A.M. Yates. 2003. A new Triassic owenettid parareptile and the mother of mass extinctions. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 23(3):715-719 [J. Mueller/J. Dummasch]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 80064: authorized by Johannes Mueller, entered by Jana Dummasch on 02.04.2008

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Taxonomic list

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Reptilia
 Parareptilia - Owenettidae
"Saurodectes rogersorum n. gen. n. sp." = Saurodektes rogersorum
"Saurodectes rogersorum n. gen. n. sp." = Saurodektes rogersorum Modesto et al. 2003 parareptile
BP/1/6025 (type); originally entered as "Saurodectes rogersorium"