Also known as Thaba Nchu
Where: Free State, South Africa (29.2° S, 26.8° E: paleocoordinates 64.9° S, 16.0° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• hand sample-level geographic resolution
When: Dicynodon or Lystrosaurus Assemblage zone, Beaufort Group, Changhsingian to Changhsingian (254.2 - 247.2 Ma)
• "Lystrosaurus zone, Lower Triassic." (Carroll, 1982). No further stratigraphic details are given in the primary reference.
•The Lystrosaurus AZ spans the Upper Balfour (or Normandien) Formation (Upper Changhsingian) to the Lower Burgersdorp (or Driekoppen) Formation (Olenekian). Litho- and chronostratigraphy is according to Catuneanu et al. (2005, Afr. J. Earth Sci. 43) and Claassen (2008, S. Afr. J. Geol. 111(23)).
•Evans (2001) raises the possibility that the type of Colubrifer campi is from the Dicynodon AZ, i.e. further down in the Changhsingian.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; siliciclastic sediments
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by C. L. Camp and F. E. Peabody in 1947
Primary reference: R. L. Carroll. 1982. A Short Limbed Lizard from the Lystrosaurus Zone (Lower Triassic) of South Africa. Journal of Paleontology 56(1):183-190 [J. Mueller/T. Liebrecht]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 92419: authorized by Johannes Mueller, entered by Torsten Liebrecht on 11.11.2009
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Colubrifer campi n. gen. n. sp.
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