Farm Harmonia, Senekal: Spathian, South Africa
collected by T. J. Dreyer
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Amphibia
- Temnospondyli
- Mastodonsauridae
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Kestrosaurus dreyeri n. gen., n. sp.
Haughton 1925
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1 individual | |||||||||
| SAM 3452, skull (holotype) | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | South Africa | State/province: | Free State | County: | Thabo Mofutsanyane |
| Coordinates: | 28.3° South, 27.6° East (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 65.3° South, 11.3° West | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| Period: | Triassic | Epoch: | Early Triassic |
| Stage: | Olenekian | 10 m.y. bin: | Triassic 1 |
| Key time interval: | Spathian | Other zone: | Cynognathus Assemblage Zone Subzone A |
| Age range of interval: | 248.9 - 247.2 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Geological group: | Beaufort | Formation: | Burgersdorp | ||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: Kestrosaurus comes from Cynognathus Assemblage Zone Subzone A, which is of late Olenekian (Spathian) age | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | sandstone |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| 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 |
| Collectors: | T. J. Dreyer |
| Collection method comments: SAM: Iziko South AFrican Museum, Cape Town | |
Metadata
| Database number: | 144318 | ||
| Authorizer: | R. Butler | Enterer: | R. Butler |
| Modifier: | R. Butler | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2013-05-03 17:26:27 | Last modified: | 2013-05-03 03:38:24 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2013-05-03 17:26:27 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 46648. | S. H. Haughton. 1925. Investigations in South African fossil reptiles and amphibians (Part 13). Annals of the South African Museum 22:227-261 [R. Butler/R. Butler] |
Secondary references:
| 47049 | S. Chernin. 1978. Three capitosaurs from the Triassic of South Africa: Parotosuchus africanus (Broom 1909); Kestrosaurus dreyeri Haughton 1925, and Parotosuchus dirus sp. nov. Palaeontologia africana 21:79-100 [R. Butler/R. Butler] | |
| 47080 | M. A. Shishkin, B. S. Rubidge, J. Hanox and J. Welman. 2004. Re-evaluation of Kestrosaurus Haughton, a capitosaurid temnospondyl amphibian from the Upper Beaufort Group of South Africa. Russian Journal of Herpetology 11(2):121-138 [R. Butler/R. Butler] |