Farm Nooitgedacht, Burgersdorp District: Anisian, South Africa
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Amphibia
- Temnospondyli
- Brachyopidae
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Vanastega plurimidens n. gen., n. sp.
Damiani and Kitching 2003
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2 specimens | |||||||||
| BP/1/4004, partial skull (holotype), BP/1/5831, partial mandibular ramus | ||||||||||
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Amphibia
- Temnospondyli
- Mastodonsauridae
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Xenotosuchus africanus
(Broom 1909)
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1 individual | |||||||||
| BP/1/1674/1, partial skull (specimen data are from Damiani, 2008) | ||||||||||
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Anomodontia
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Kannemeyeria sp.
Seeley 1908
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| "abundant remains" | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | South Africa | State/province: | Eastern Cape | County: | Ukhahlamba |
| Coordinates: | 30.9° South, 26.2° East (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 66.7° South, 13.7° West | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on political unit | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
| Period: | Triassic | Epoch: | Middle Triassic |
| Stage: | Anisian | 10 m.y. bin: | Triassic 2 |
| Key time interval: | Anisian | Other zone: | Cynognathus Assemblage Zone Subzone B |
| Age range of interval: | 247.20000 - 242.00000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Geological group: | Beaufort | Formation: | Burgersdorp | ||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: upper Burgersdorp Formation; Subzone B of the Cynognathus Assemblage Zone; early Anisian age | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | calcareous mudstone | ||
| Includes fossils? | Y | ||
| Environment: | dry floodplain | Tectonic setting: | foreland basin |
| Geology comments: The Burgersdorp formation was "deposited on a semi-arid, slowly aggrading floodplain drained by sluggish meandering stream channels, which supplied water and sediment to the pedogenically-influenced overbank environments via crevasse splays (Hancox, 1998). Lakes and ponds developed on the floodplain [...]" (Catuneanu et al., 2005, J. African Earth Sci. 43). | |||
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
| Preservation of anatomical detail: | medium |
| Fragmentation: | occasional |
| Temporal resolution: | snapshot |
Collection methods and comments
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
| Museum repositories: | BPI |
| Taxonomic list comments:Damiani & Kitching (2003) mention "abundant remains" of 'Parotosuchus' africanus with respect to the Nooitgedacht locality, but Damiani (2008) only lists one partial skull. | |
Metadata
| Also known as: | Nooitgedagt | ||
| Database number: | 96329 | ||
| Authorizer: | R. Butler | Enterer: | R. Butler |
| Modifier: | R. Butler | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2010-06-01 02:08:15 | Last modified: | 2013-05-03 09:49:03 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2010-06-01 02:08:15 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 32694. | 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 [R. Butler/R. Butler] |
Secondary references:
| 32723 | R. Damiani. 2008. A giant skull of the temnospondyl Xenotosuchus africanus from the Middle Triassic of South Africa and its ontogenetic implications. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 53(1):75-84 [J. Mueller/T. Liebrecht] |