Zylsfontein, Senekal: Spathian, South Africa
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Amphibia
- Temnospondyli
- Mastodonsauridae
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Kestrosaurus sp.
Haughton 1925
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1 individual | |||||||||
| GHG 126, partial skull | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | South Africa | State/province: | Free State | County: | Senekal |
| 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 |
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | not reported |
| Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | survey of museum collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
| Collection method comments: GHG, Council for Geoscience, Pretoria | |
Metadata
| Database number: | 145594 | ||
| Authorizer: | R. Butler | Enterer: | R. Butler | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2013-06-06 17:21:13 | Last modified: | 2013-06-06 02:21:13 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2013-06-06 17:21:13 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 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] |