Burgersdorp Area: Anisian, South Africa
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Anomodontia
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Dicynodon latifrons n. sp.
Broom 1899
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Broom 1899 | |||||||||
| synonym of Kannemeyeria simocephala | ||||||||||
| AMG 4799, an anteroposteriorly crushed partial skull | ||||||||||
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Therocephalia
- Bauriidae
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Microgomphodon eumerus n. gen., n. sp.
Seeley 1895
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Seeley 1895 | |||||||||
| NHMUK R3581, partial skull and postcrania | ||||||||||
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= Microhelodon n. gen. eumerus
Broom 1931
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Abdala et al. 2013 | |||||||||
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unclassified
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Diademodon kannemeyeri
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Diademodon tetragonus
Seeley 1894
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Trirachodontidae
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Trirachodon kannemeyeri
Seeley
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| recombined as Cricodon kannemeyeri | ||||||||||
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Trirachodon berryi
Seeley 1895
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unclassified
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Cynognathus crateronotus
Seeley 1895
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Amphibia
- Temnospondyli
- Brachyopidae
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Bathignathus watsoni n. gen., n. sp.
(Haughton 1925)
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Damiani and Jeannot 2002 | |||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | South Africa | State/province: | Eastern Cape |
| Coordinates: | 31.0° South, 26.3° East (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 66.9° South, 13.7° West | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark |
Time
| Period: | Triassic | Epoch: | Middle Triassic |
| Stage: | Anisian | 10 m.y. bin: | Triassic 2 |
| Key time interval: | Anisian | Zone: | Cynognathus Assemblage Zone |
| Age range of interval: | 247.20000 - 242.00000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Geological group: | Beaufort | Formation: | Burgersdorp |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | not reported |
| Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
Metadata
| Database number: | 177025 | ||
| Authorizer: | R. Butler, A. Dunhill | Enterer: | J. Benito Moreno, B. Allen |
| Modifier: | J. Benito Moreno | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2016-03-16 11:29:18 | Last modified: | 2016-03-17 06:54:48 |
| Access level: | database members | Released: | 2018-03-16 11:29:18 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 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] |
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] | |
| 58454 | R. Broom. 1899. On two new species of dicynodonts. Annals of the South African Museum 1:452-456 [R. Butler/J. Benito Moreno] | |
| 47045 | R. J. Damiani and A. M. Jeannot. 2002. A brachyopid temnospondyl from the Lower Cynognathus Assemblage Zone in the northern Karoo Basin, South Africa. Palaeontologia africana 38:57-69 [R. Butler/R. Butler] | |
| 66850 | H. G. Seeley. 1895. Researches on the structure, organization, and classification of the fossil Reptilia. Part IX, Section 4. On the Gomphodontia. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London B 186:1-57 [A. Dunhill/B. Allen] |