Bethel Farm, Cynognathus AZ (Triassic of South Africa)

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

Osteichthyes
 Therocephalia - Bauriidae
Bauria cynops1 Broom 1909 therapsid
UCMP 4284
Amphibia
 Temnospondyli - Brachyopidae
Batrachosuchus sp.2 Broom 1903 tetrapod
UCMP 42856, 80859, 80860 (Reported by Colbert & Cosgriff (1974), and later endorsed by Warren & Marsicano (2000))
 Temnospondyli - Trematosauridae
Microposaurus casei Haughton 1925 tetrapod
BP/1/4653, fragments of a skull