New Castle of the Admiralty Estates farm, Field No. 3849 (Beaufort Grp.): Induan - Olenekian, South Africa
collected by Kitching
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Amphibia
- Temnospondyli
- Lydekkerinidae
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Lydekkerina sp.
Broom 1915
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= Lydekkerina huxleyi
Lydekker 1889
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Kitching 1977 | |||||||||
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Amphibia
- Temnospondyli
- Rhinesuchidae
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Broomistega putterilli
(Broom 1930)
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Shishkin and Rubidge 2000 | 1 individual | ||||||||
| BP/1/3241, partially disarticulated skeleton including nearly complete skull with lower jaw | ||||||||||
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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 curvatus
(Owen 1876)
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Kitching 1977 | |||||||||
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Therocephalia
- Akidnognathidae
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Moschorhinus kitchingi
Broom 1920
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Kitching 1977 | |||||||||
| BP/1/4227, skull, lower jaw and nearly complete postcrania | ||||||||||
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Olivieria parringtoni n. gen., n. sp.
Brink 1965
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1 specimen | |||||||||
| recombined as Olivierosuchus parringtoni | ||||||||||
| BP/1/379, complete skulla and anterior portion of a skeleton skeleton | ||||||||||
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Therocephalia
- Lycideopidae
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Tetracynodon darti n. sp.
Sigogneau 1963
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Sigogneau 1963 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
| BP/1/2710, nearly complete skull, lower jaw and anterior part of skeleton (holotype). | ||||||||||
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? Tetracynodon darti
Sigogneau 1963
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Sigurdsen et al. 2012 | 1 individual | ||||||||
| BP/1/4335 | ||||||||||
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unclassified
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Thrinaxodon liorhinus
Seeley 1894
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Brink 1959 | 22 specimens | ||||||||
| 22 specimens according to Kitching (1977) | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | South Africa | State/province: | KwaZulu-Natal | County: | Bergville |
| Coordinates: | 28.6° South, 29.1° East (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 66.3° South, 10.8° West | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Stratigraphy
| Geological group: | Beaufort | Formation: | Normandien | Member: | Harrismith |
| Stratigraphic resolution: | formation |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | "siliciclastic" | ||
| Environment: | terrestrial indet. | Tectonic setting: | foreland basin |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
| Preservation of anatomical detail: | good |
| Articulated whole bodies: | some |
| Spatial resolution: | autochthonous |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | mechanical,field collection,survey of museum collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
| Museum repositories: | BPI |
| Collectors: | Kitching |
| Collection method comments: Though not specifically stated, the Brink specimens are probably BPI.
Sigogneau specimen is BPI. Tetracynodon has a different Field Number than that given in Brink 1965, but Brink states that Tetracynodon was found four feet away from Oliviera parringtoni. | |
| Taxonomic list comments:Brink (1965) reported 12 specimens of Thrinaxodon sp. Colbert & Kitching (1977) report 22 specimens of Thrinaxodon liorhinus, "recovered since 1963, from an erosion gully on a slope, below the Oliviershoek Pass road, Bergville district, Natal." According to their locality description, Colbert and Kitching (1977) very likely refer to the Admiralty Estates locality. Given that the genus Thrinaxodon is monospecific, the Thrinaxodon sp. occurences of Brink (1965) are incorporated in the Thrinaxodon liorhinus occurences of Colbert & Kitching (1977). | |
Metadata
| Also known as: | Oliviershoek Pass, Lystrosaurus zone | ||
| Database number: | 34815 | ||
| Authorizer: | J. Alroy, R. Butler | Enterer: | R. Whatley, R. Butler |
| Modifier: | R. Butler | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2003-10-01 14:32:19 | Last modified: | 2016-09-28 06:48:26 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2003-10-01 14:32:19 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 9227. | 5% 41540 | A. S. Brink. 1965. A new ictidosuchid (Scaloposauria) from the Lystrosaurus-zone. Palaeontologia Africana 9:129-138 [J. Alroy/R. Whatley/R. Whatley] |
Secondary references:
| 60421 | A. S. Brink. 1959. Note on a new skeleton of Thrinaxodon liorhinus. Palaeontologia africana 6:15-22 [R. Butler/R. Butler] | |
| 29626 | E. H. Colbert and J. W. Kitching. 1977. Triassic Cynodont Reptiles From Antarctica. American Museum Novitates 2611:1-30 [J. Mueller/T. Liebrecht] | |
| 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] | |
| 46531 | M. A. Shishkin and B. S. Rubidge. 2000. A relict rhinesuchid (Amphibia: Temnospondyli) from the Lower Triassic of South Africa. Palaeontology 43(4):653-670 [R. Butler/R. Butler] | |
| 9297 | D. Sigogneau. 1963. Note sur une novelle espece de Scaloposauridae. Palaeontologia Africana 8:13-36 [J. Alroy/R. Whatley/M. Uhen] | |
| 47098 | T. Sigurdsen, A. K. Huttenlocker, S. P. Modesto, T. B. Rowe, and R. Damiani. 2012. Reassessment of the morphology and paleobiology of the therocephalian Tetracynodon darti (Therapsida), and the phylogenetic relationships of Baurioidea. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 32(5):1113-1134 [R. Butler/R. Butler] |