Also known as Cumulus Hills; Halfmoon Bluff; Sentinel Hill
Where: Antarctica (85.2° S, 175.5° W: paleocoordinates 81.8° S, 69.3° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Fremouw Formation (Beacon Group), Early/Lower Triassic (252.2 - 247.2 Ma)
• "lower portion of the Fremouw Formation, of Early Triassic age" (Colbert & Kitching, 1975);
•According to fig. 10 in Collinson et al. (2006, GSA Bull. 118(5/6)) Procolophon and associate vertebrate remains come from about 85 m above the base of the Fremouw Fm.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: fluvial; gray, green mudstone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by J. W. Kitching in 1970-1971; reposited in the AMNH
• "All specimens were collected by J. W. Kitching, except AMNH 9509, collected by Thomas Rich, and AMNH 9510, collected by John Ruben." (Colbert & Kitching, 1975)
Primary reference: E. H. Colbert and J. W. Kitching. 1975. The Triassic Reptile Procolophon in Antarctica. American Museum Novitates 2566:1-23 [J. Mueller/T. Liebrecht]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 87414: authorized by Johannes Mueller, entered by Torsten Liebrecht on 17.03.2009, edited by Richard Butler and Bethany Allen
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Procolophon trigoniceps Owen 1876 parareptile AMNH 9518 (two partial skulls), 9533 (badly crushed skull)
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