Wheatlands, Tarkastad: Early/Lower Triassic, South Africa
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Anomodontia
- Lystrosauridae
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Lystrosaurus murrayi
(Huxley 1859)
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Kitching 1977 | |||||||||
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Lystrosaurus declivis
Brink 1951
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Kitching 1977 | |||||||||
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Reptilia
- Procolophonidae
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Procolophon sp.
Owen 1876
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Kitching 1977 | |||||||||
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Reptilia
- Proterosuchidae
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Proterosuchus fergusi
Broom 1903
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1 individual | |||||||||
| SAM 591, partial skull (holotype, replaced by a neotype: see Ezcurra & Butler 2015) | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | South Africa | State/province: | Eastern Cape | County: | Stormberg |
| Coordinates: | 32.0° South, 26.3° East (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 66.3° South, 21.3° West | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | local area |
Time
| Period: | Triassic | Epoch: | Early/Lower Triassic |
| 10 m.y. bin: | Triassic 1 | ||
| Key time interval: | Early/Lower Triassic | Other zone: | Lystrosaurus |
| Age range of interval: | 251.90200 - 247.20000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | not reported |
| Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
| Preservation of anatomical detail: | poor |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | field collection,survey of museum collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
| Collection method comments: SAM: South African Museum, Cape Town | |
Metadata
| Also known as: | Proterosuchus holotype | ||
| Database number: | 117176 | ||
| Authorizer: | R. Butler | Enterer: | R. Butler |
| Modifier: | R. Butler | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2011-09-16 19:16:30 | Last modified: | 2016-11-08 09:14:51 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2011-09-16 19:16:30 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 37663. | R. Broom. 1903. On a new reptile (Proterosuchus fergusi) from the Karroo Beds of Tarkastad, South Africa. Annals of the South African Museum 4:161-163 [R. Butler/R. Butler] |
Secondary references:
| 37672 | A. R. I. Cruickshank. 1972. The proterosuchian thecodonts. In K. A. Joysey, T. S. Kemp (eds.), Studies in Vertebrate Evolution 89-119 [R. Butler/R. Butler] | |
| 60752 | M. D. Ezcurra and R. J. Butler. 2015. Taxonomy of the proterosuchid archosauriforms (Diapsida: Archosauromorpha) from the earliest Triassic of South Africa, and implications for the early archosauriform radiation. Palaeontology 58(1):141-170 [R. Butler/R. Butler] | |
| 27216 | J. W. Kitching. 1977. The distribution of the Karroo vertebrate fauna. Memoirs of the Bernard Price Institute for Palaeontological Research 1:1-131 [H. Sims/J. Camp] |