Farm in Bethulie District (Triassic to of South Africa)

Where: Free State, South Africa (30.5° S, 25.5° E: paleocoordinates 64.9° S, 19.1° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Lystrosaurus Assemblage Zone other zone, Beaufort Group, Induan to Induan (252.2 - 247.2 Ma)

• Nothing is stated about the stratigraphic position of the collection. However, Thrinaxodon is completely restricted to the Lystrosaurus Assemblage Zone of Early Triassic age (C. Kammerer pers. comm. 2016).

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; siliciclastic sediments

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: E. H. Colbert and J. W. Kitching. 1977. Triassic Cynodont Reptiles From Antarctica. American Museum Novitates 2611:1-30 [J. Mueller/T. Liebrecht]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 88300: authorized by Johannes Mueller, entered by Torsten Liebrecht on 06.04.2009

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Taxonomic list

Osteichthyes
 Therapsida -
Thrinaxodon liorhinus Seeley 1894 cynodont