Matyantya basin, Lady Frere: Anisian, South Africa
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Therocephalia
- Nothogomphodontidae
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Sesamodon browni
Broom 1905
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Kitching 1977 | |||||||||
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= Microgomphodon oligocynus
Seeley 1895
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Abdala et al. 2013 | |||||||||
| USNM PAL 289115, 412401, 412433 | ||||||||||
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Therocephalia
- Bauriidae
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Bauria cynops
Broom 1909
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1 specimen | |||||||||
| BP/1/317, skull and portion of skeleton (field number F1180) (3 measurements) | ||||||||||
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unclassified
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Diademodon tetragonus
Seeley 1894
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Kitching 1977 | |||||||||
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Cynognathus crateronotus
Seeley 1895
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Kitching 1977 | |||||||||
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Anomodontia
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Kannemeyeria simocephalus
(Weithofer 1888)
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Kitching 1977 | |||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | South Africa | State/province: | Eastern Cape |
| Coordinates: | 31.7° South, 27.2° East (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 67.9° South, 13.8° West | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||
| Geographic resolution: | local area |
Time
| Period: | Triassic | Epoch: | Middle Triassic |
| Stage: | Anisian | 10 m.y. bin: | Triassic 2 |
| Key time interval: | Anisian | Other zone: | Cynognathus subzone B |
| Age range of interval: | 247.2 - 242 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Geological group: | Beaufort | Formation: | Burgersdorp | ||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | member | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: Only stratigraphic information provided was "middle Cynognathus zone". The Cynognathus zone spans the Olenekian-Anisian, but its middle part (subzone B) is early Anisian in age | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | not reported |
| Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | survey of museum collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
| Museum repositories: | BPI |
Metadata
| Also known as: | Middelkop | ||
| Database number: | 101957 | ||
| Authorizer: | R. Butler, A. Dunhill | Enterer: | R. Butler, B. Allen |
| Modifier: | R. Butler | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2011-01-05 19:30:03 | Last modified: | 2011-02-24 03:07:28 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2011-01-05 19:30:03 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 34659. | A. S. Brink. 1963. On Bauria cynops Broom. Palaeontologia africana 8:39-56 [R. Butler/R. Butler] |
Secondary references:
| 66849 | F. Abdala, T. Jashashvili, B. S. Rubidge and J. Heever. 2013. New Material of Microgomphodon oligocynus (Eutherapsida, Therocephalia) and the Taxonomy of Southern African Bauriidae. In C. Kammerer, K. Angielczyk, J. Fröbisch (eds.), Early Evolutionary History of the Synapsida 209-231 [A. Dunhill/B. Allen/B. Allen] | |
| 27216 | J. W. Kitching. 1977. The distribution of the Karroo vertebrate fauna. Memoirs of the Bernard Price Institute for Palaeontological Research 1:1-131 [H. Sims/J. Camp] |