New Castle of the Admiralty Estates farm, Field No. 3849 (Beaufort Grp.) (Triassic to of South Africa)

Also known as Oliviershoek Pass, Lystrosaurus zone

Where: KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa (28.6° S, 29.1° E: paleocoordinates 66.3° S, 10.8° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Lystrosaurus Assemblage Zone other zone, Harrismith Member (Normandien Formation), Induan to Induan (252.2 - 247.2 Ma)

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; siliciclastic sediments

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Kitching; reposited in the BPI

Collection methods: mechanical,

• Though not specifically stated, the Brink specimens are probably BPI.

•Sigogneau specimen is BPI. Tetracynodon has a different Field Number than that given in Brink 1965, but Brink states that Tetracynodon was found four feet away from Oliviera parringtoni.

Primary reference: A. S. Brink. 1965. A new ictidosuchid (Scaloposauria) from the Lystrosaurus-zone. Palaeontologia Africana 9:129-138 [J. Alroy/R. Whatley/R. Whatley]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 34815: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Robin Whatley on 01.10.2003, edited by Richard Butler

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Taxonomic list

• Brink (1965) reported 12 specimens of Thrinaxodon sp. Colbert & Kitching (1977) report 22 specimens of Thrinaxodon liorhinus, "recovered since 1963, from an erosion gully on a slope, below the Oliviershoek Pass road, Bergville district, Natal." According to their locality description, Colbert and Kitching (1977) very likely refer to the Admiralty Estates locality. Given that the genus Thrinaxodon is monospecific, the Thrinaxodon sp. occurences of Brink (1965) are incorporated in the Thrinaxodon liorhinus occurences of Colbert & Kitching (1977).
Amphibia
 Temnospondyli - Rhinesuchidae
Broomistega putterilli3 Broom 1930 tetrapod
BP/1/3241, partially disarticulated skeleton including nearly complete skull with lower jaw
 Temnospondyli - Lydekkerinidae
Lydekkerina huxleyi2 Lydekker 1889 tetrapod
Osteichthyes
 Dicynodontia - Lystrosauridae
Lystrosaurus murrayi2 Huxley 1859 dicynodont
Lystrosaurus curvatus2 Owen 1876 dicynodont
Lystrosaurus declivis2 Brink 1951 dicynodont
 Therapsida -
Thrinaxodon liorhinus1 Seeley 1894 cynodont
22 specimens according to Kitching (1977)
 Therocephalia - Akidnognathidae
"Olivieria parringtoni n. gen. n. sp." = Olivierosuchus parringtoni, Moschorhinus kitchingi2
"Olivieria parringtoni n. gen. n. sp." = Olivierosuchus parringtoni Brink 1965 therapsid
BP/1/379, complete skulla and anterior portion of a skeleton skeleton
Moschorhinus kitchingi2 Broom 1920 therapsid
BP/1/4227, skull, lower jaw and nearly complete postcrania
 Therocephalia - Lycideopidae
Tetracynodon darti n. sp.4 Sigogneau 1963 therapsid
BP/1/2710, nearly complete skull, lower jaw and anterior part of skeleton (holotype).
? Tetracynodon darti5 Sigogneau 1963 therapsid
BP/1/4335