Farm Norwood - BP/1/5536: Anisian, South Africa
collected by Hancox
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Anomodontia
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Kannemeyeriiformes indet.
(Huene 1948)
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1 specimen | |||||||||
BP/1/5536, fragment of intertemporal bar | ||||||||||
see common names |
Geography
Country: | South Africa | State/province: | Eastern Cape | County: | Sterkstroom |
Coordinates: | 31.6° South, 26.4° East (view map) | ||||
Paleocoordinates: | 67.3° South, 14.8° West | ||||
Basis of coordinate: | stated in text | ||||
Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
Period: | Triassic | Epoch: | Middle Triassic |
Stage: | Anisian | 10 m.y. bin: | Triassic 2 |
Key time interval: | Anisian | Other zone: | Cynognathus subzone C |
Age range of interval: | 247.20000 - 242.00000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
Geological group: | Beaufort | Formation: | Burgersdorp | ||
Stratigraphic resolution: | member | ||||
Stratigraphy comments: Fossils are from the uppermost 150 m of the Burgerdorp Formation: the "Cynognathus Assemblage Zone, Subzone C" |
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | "siliciclastic" |
Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body |
Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Preservation of anatomical detail: | medium |
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods: | surface (float),field collection |
Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
Museum repositories: | BPI |
Collectors: | Hancox |
Metadata
Database number: | 159738 | ||
Authorizer: | R. Butler | Enterer: | R. Butler | Research group: | vertebrate |
Created: | 2014-08-08 03:18:18 | Last modified: | 2014-08-08 03:18:18 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2014-08-08 03:18:18 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
52167. | P. J. Hancox, K. D. Angielczyk, and B. S. Rubidge. 2013. Angonisaurus and Shansiodon, dicynodonts (Therapsida, Anomodontia) from Subzone C of the Cynognathus Assemblage Zone (Middle Triassic) of South Africa. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 33(3):655-676 [R. Butler/R. Butler] |