Boesmansklip, Bergville: Early/Lower Triassic, South Africa
collected by Zunckel
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Anomodontia
- Lystrosauridae
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Lystrosaurus declivis
Brink 1951
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Kitching 1977 | |||||||||
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Lystrosaurus murrayi
(Huxley 1859)
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Kitching 1977 | |||||||||
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Lystrosaurus oviceps
Haughton 1915
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Kitching 1977 | |||||||||
| synonym of Lystrosaurus curvatus | ||||||||||
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Therocephalia
- Akidnognathidae
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Moschorhinus natalensis n. sp.
Brink 1958
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1 individual | |||||||||
| synonym of Moschorhinus kitchingi | ||||||||||
| BP/1/295, skull; BP/1/1713, skull | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | South Africa | State/province: | Kwazulu-Natal | County: | Uthukela |
| Coordinates: | 28.7° South, 29.3° East (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 66.6° South, 10.8° West | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | local area |
Time
| Period: | Triassic | Epoch: | Early/Lower Triassic |
| 10 m.y. bin: | Triassic 1 | ||
| Key time interval: | Early/Lower Triassic | Other zone: | Lystrosaurus |
| Age range of interval: | 251.90200 - 247.20000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Geological group: | Beaufort |
| Stratigraphic resolution: | formation |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | not reported |
| Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
| Temporal resolution: | snapshot |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | survey of museum collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
| Museum repositories: | BPI |
| Collectors: | Zunckel |
Metadata
| Database number: | 105603 | ||
| Authorizer: | R. Butler | Enterer: | R. Butler | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2011-02-22 21:43:09 | Last modified: | 2011-02-22 04:43:09 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2011-02-22 21:43:09 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 35272. | A. S. Brink. 1958. Notes on some whaitsiids and moschorhinids. Palaeontologia Africana 6:23-49 [R. Butler/R. Butler] |
Secondary references:
| 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] |