Cavern Falls (Triassic of South Africa)

Where: Venterstad, South Africa (29.8° S, 29.8° E: paleocoordinates 67.5° S, 12.3° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Early/Lower Triassic (252.2 - 247.2 Ma)

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: S. C. Jasinoski and F. Abdala. 2017. Aggregations and parental care in the Early Triassic basal cynodonts Galesaurus planiceps and Thrinaxodon liorhinus. PeerJ 5:e2875 [A. Dunhill/B. Allen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 196395: authorized by Alex Dunhill, entered by Bethany Allen on 11.09.2018

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Osteichthyes
 Therapsida -
Thrinaxodon liorhinus Seeley 1894 cynodont
BP/1/4331, four individuals