Kaaimansgat 146: Olenekian, South Africa
collected by G. Grossarth
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Therocephalia
- Nothogomphodontidae
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Microgomphodon oligocynus
Seeley 1895
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Abdala et al. 2013 | |||||||||
| BSP 1934-VIII-13 | ||||||||||
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Trirachodontidae
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Langbergia modisei
Abdala et al. 2006
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1 individual | |||||||||
| SAM-PK-K11481, skull and lower jaw | ||||||||||
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Amphibia
- Temnospondyli
- Mastodonsauridae
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Capitosaurus haughtoni n. sp.
Broili and Schröder 1937
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Broili and Schröder 1937 | 1 individual | ||||||||
| BSPG 1934 VIII 50, partial skull | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | South Africa | State/province: | Free State | County: | Rouxville |
| Coordinates: | 30.4° South, 26.8° East (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 66.1° South, 16.3° West | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
| Period: | Triassic | Epoch: | Early Triassic |
| Stage: | Olenekian | 10 m.y. bin: | Triassic 1 |
| Key time interval: | Olenekian | Other zone: | Cynognathus Assemblage Zone Subzone A |
| Age range of interval: | 251.2 - 247.2 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Geological group: | Beaufort | Formation: | Burgersdorp | ||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | group of beds | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: Lower horizons of the Burgersdorp Formation; Cynognathus subzone A; late Olenekian age | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | not reported |
| 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 |
| Museum repositories: | BPI,BSP |
| Collectors: | G. Grossarth |
Metadata
| Database number: | 98618 | ||
| Authorizer: | R. Butler, A. Dunhill | Enterer: | R. Butler, B. Allen |
| Modifier: | R. Butler | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2010-10-14 08:37:43 | Last modified: | 2017-05-23 16:34:15 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2010-10-14 08:37:43 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 34025. | F. Abdala, J. Neveling, and J. Welman. 2006. A new trirachodontid cynodont from the lower levels of the Burgersdorp Formation (Lower Triassic) of the Beaufort Group, South Africa and the cladistic relationships of Gondwanan gomphodonts. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 147:383-413 [R. Butler/R. Butler] |
Secondary references:
| 66849 | F. Abdala, T. Jashashvili, B. S. Rubidge and J. Heever. 2013. New Material of Microgomphodon oligocynus (Eutherapsida, Therocephalia) and the Taxonomy of Southern African Bauriidae. In C. Kammerer, K. Angielczyk, J. Fröbisch (eds.), Early Evolutionary History of the Synapsida 209-231 [A. Dunhill/B. Allen/B. Allen] | |
| 47066 | F. Broili and J. Schröder. 1937. Beobachtungen an Wirbeltieren der Karrooformation. XXVII. Über einen Capitosauriden aus der Cynognathus-Zone. Sitzungsberichte der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Mathematisch-naturwissenschaftliche Abteilung 1937:97-117 [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] |