Where: Free State, South Africa (28.2° S, 28.0° E: paleocoordinates 65.5° S, 10.7° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Cynognathus subzone A other zone, Burgersdorp Formation (Beaufort Group), Olenekian (251.2 - 247.2 Ma)
• Lower horizons of the Burgersdorp Formation; Cynognathus subzone A; late Olenekian age
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Reposited in the BPI
Primary reference: F. Abdala, J. Neveling, and J. Welman. 2006. A new trirachodontid cynodont from the lower levels of the Burgersdorp Formation (Lower Triassic) of the Beaufort Group, South Africa and the cladistic relationships of Gondwanan gomphodonts. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 147:383-413 [R. Butler/R. Butler]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 98611: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Richard Butler on 14.10.2010
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Langbergia modisei n. gen. n. sp.
Langbergia modisei n. gen. n. sp. Abdala et al. 2006 cynodont NMQR 3251, 3255 (holotype), 3256, three skulls with lower jaws
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| Reptilia | |
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Garjainia madiba Gower et al. 2014 archosauromorph NMQR 3257, left premaxilla, posterior cervical rib
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