Tafelberg, near Middelburg: Induan, South Africa
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Amphibia
- Temnospondyli
- Rhytidosteidae
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Pneumatostega potamia n. gen., n. sp.
Cosgriff and Zawiskie 1979
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1 individual | |||||||||
| BP/1/F.981, impression of partial skull roof | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | South Africa | State/province: | Eastern Cape | County: | Chris Hani |
| Coordinates: | 31.7° South, 25.2° East (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 64.8° South, 23.6° West | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| Period: | Triassic | Epoch: | Early/Lower Triassic |
| Stage: | Induan | 10 m.y. bin: | Triassic 1 |
| Key time interval: | Induan | Other zone: | Lystrosaurus Assemblage Zone |
| Age range of interval: | 251.90200 - 251.20000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | conglomerate |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Lithology description: "conglomeratic matrix" | |
| Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | mold/impression |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | mechanical,peel or thin section,survey of museum collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
| Museum repositories: | BPI |
Metadata
| Database number: | 144128 | ||
| Authorizer: | R. Butler | Enterer: | R. Butler | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2013-05-01 02:09:30 | Last modified: | 2013-04-30 11:09:30 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2013-05-01 02:09:30 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 46610. | J. W. Cosgriff and J. M. Zawiskie. 1979. A new species of the Rhytidosteidae from the Lystrosaurus Zone and a review of the Rhytidosteoidea. Palaeontologia Africana 22:1-27 [R. Butler/R. Butler] |