Vanastega plurimidens Damiani and Kitching 2003 (tetrapod)

Amphibia - Temnospondyli - Brachyopidae

Full reference: R. J. Damiani and J. W. Kitching. 2003. A new brachyopid temnospondyl from the Cynognathus Assemblage Zone, upper Beaufort Group, South Africa. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 23(1):67-78

Belongs to Vanastega according to R. J. Damiani and J. W. Kitching 2003

See also Damiani and Rubidge 2003

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: BP/1/4004, a partial skull (Partial skull). Its type locality is Farm Nooitgedacht, Burgersdorp District, which is in an Anisian dry floodplain mudstone in the Burgersdorp Formation of South Africa.

Ecology: amphibious carnivore

Distribution: found only at Farm Nooitgedacht, Burgersdorp District

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