Where: Free State, South Africa (30.4° S, 26.3° E: paleocoordinates 66.5° S, 12.7° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Cynognathus Assemblage Zone Subzone B other zone, Burgersdorp Formation (Beaufort Group), Anisian (247.2 - 242.0 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; siliciclastic sediments
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by J. Kitching in 1976; reposited in the BPI
Primary reference: R. Damiani. 2004. Cranial anatomy and relationships of Microposaurus casei, a temnospondyl from the Middle Triassic of South Africa. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 24(3):533-541 [M. Clapham/C. Feng/R. Butler]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 144343: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Richard Butler on 04.05.2013, edited by Emma Dunne and Bethany Allen
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Batrachosuchus sp.2 Broom 1903 tetrapod UCMP 42856, 80859, 80860 (Reported by Colbert & Cosgriff (1974), and later endorsed by Warren & Marsicano (2000))
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