Coalsack Bluff, Transantarctic Mountains: Early/Lower Triassic, Antarctica

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
Austrobrachyops jenseni n. gen., n. sp. Colbert and Cosgriff 1974
1 specimen
nomen dubium belonging to Tetrapoda
AMNH 9346 (holotype), pterygoid
Amphibia - Temnospondyli
Temnospondyli indet. (von Zittel 1887)
1 specimen
AMNH 9330
Cryobatrachus kitchingi Colbert and Cosgriff 1974
6 specimens
nomen dubium belonging to Stereospondyli
AMNH 9331, 9339, 9340, 9342, 9343, 9344
? Cryobatrachus kitchingi Colbert and Cosgriff 1974
12 specimens
nomen dubium belonging to Stereospondyli
AMNH 9332, 9341, 9345, 9347, 9348, 9382-9388
see common names

Geography
Country:Antarctica
Coordinates: 84.3° South, 162.3° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:79.7° South, 74.6° East
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Triassic Epoch:Early/Lower Triassic
10 m.y. bin:Triassic 1
Key time interval:Early/Lower Triassic
Age range of interval:251.90200 - 247.20000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Fremouw
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: Lower part of the Fremouw Formation
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: "siliciclastic"
Includes fossils?Y
Environment:"channel"
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Museum repositories:AMNH
Metadata
Database number:136394
Authorizer:R. Butler Enterer:R. Butler
Research group:vertebrate
Created:2012-11-27 19:38:04 Last modified:2012-11-27 02:38:04
Access level:the public Released:2012-11-27 19:38:04
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
43611. E. H. Colbert and J. W. Cosgriff. 1974. Labyrinthodont amphibians from Antarctica. American Museum Novitates 2552:1-30 [R. Butler/R. Butler]