Also known as "Krielfontein", "Quarry Commonage"
Where: Eastern Cape, South Africa (30.7° S, 26.7° E: paleocoordinates 66.9° S, 12.6° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Cynognathus Assemblage zone, Burgersdorp Formation (Beaufort Group), Anisian (247.2 - 242.0 Ma)
• "Cynognathus assemblage zone" (Ewer, 1965);
•"Middle zone of Cynognathus Assemblage Zone (Hancox et al. 1995) correlating with the upper two-thirds of the Burgersdorp Formation (Tarkastad Subgroup; Beaufort Group) according to Keyser & Smith (1979)" (Dilkes, 1998).
•The middle Cynognathus AZ in the Aliwal North District is entirely within the Anisian Stage of the Middle Triassic (Catuneanu et al., 2005 J. Afr. Earth Sci., 43).
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: dry floodplain; sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by A. Brown, A. W. Higgins
Collection methods: surface (in situ),
• SAM = South African Museum, Pretoria, South Africa
•UMCZ = University Museum of Zoology, Cambridge, United Kingdom
•DMSW = D.M.S. Watson collection
Primary reference: R. Broom. 1913. On the South African pseudosuchian Euparkeria and allied genera. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1913:619-633 [R. Butler/R. Butler]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 85943: authorized by Johannes Mueller, entered by Torsten Liebrecht on 20.01.2009
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Mesosuchus browni n. gen. n. sp.1
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"Euparkeria capensis n. gen. n. sp." = Euparkeria capensis2, "Browniella africana n. gen. n. sp." = Euparkeria capensis
"Euparkeria capensis n. gen. n. sp." = Euparkeria capensis2 Broom 1913 archosauromorph SAM 5867 (type, "Haughtons specimen 1"), 6047A ("Haughtons specimen 2"), 6048 (""Haughtons specimen 3"), 6049 ("Haughtons specimen 4"), 6050 ("Haughtons specimen 6"), 7696, 7698, 7700, 7702, 7713, 13664 (the specimen mentioned by Haughton (1922) at the bottom of p. 83), 13665 ("Haughtons specimen 5"), 13667; UMCZ T692 (formerly DMSW R527); repository information on the last specimen is from Senter (2009, Palaeontology 46(3))
"Browniella africana n. gen. n. sp." = Euparkeria capensis Broom 1913 archosauromorph 6047B (type, "Haughtons specimen 2")
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