Bethulie Commonage (Lystrosaurus Assemblage Zone): Induan - Olenekian, South Africa

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Anomodontia - Lystrosauridae
Lystrosaurus platyceps Seeley 1898
Kitching 1977
synonym of Lystrosaurus curvatus
Lystrosaurus murrayi (Huxley 1859)
Kitching 1977
Reptilia - Proterosuchidae
Proterosuchus vanhoepeni (Haughton 1924)
Kitching 1977 1 individual
synonym of Proterosuchus fergusi
BP/1/4224
Amphibia - Temnospondyli - Amphibamidae
Micropholis stowi Huxley 1859
1 individual
NMQR 3382, small adult skull and anterior postcranial skeleton
see common names

Geography
Country:South Africa State/province:Free State County:Xhariep
Coordinates: 30.5° South, 26.0° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:65.3° South, 18.5° West
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Triassic Epoch:Early/Lower Triassic
10 m.y. bin:Triassic 1
Key time interval:Induan - Olenekian Other zone: Lystrosaurus Assemblage Zone
Age range of interval:251.90200 - 247.20000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Beaufort Formation:Katberg
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: "siliciclastic"
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collection method comments: NM QR: National Museum, Bloemfontein
Metadata
Database number:144326
Authorizer:R. Butler Enterer:R. Butler, J. Benito Moreno
Modifier:R. Butler Research group:vertebrate
Created:2013-05-03 19:19:19 Last modified:2016-11-08 09:27:23
Access level:the public Released:2013-05-03 19:19:19
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
46658. R. R. Schoch and B. S. Rubidge. 2005. The amphibamid Micropholis from the Lystrosaurus Assemblage Zone of South Africa. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 25(3):502-522 [R. Butler/R. Butler]

Secondary references:

60752 M. D. Ezcurra and R. J. Butler. 2015. Taxonomy of the proterosuchid archosauriforms (Diapsida: Archosauromorpha) from the earliest Triassic of South Africa, and implications for the early archosauriform radiation. Palaeontology 58(1):141-170 [R. Butler/R. Butler]
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]