Locality V4744 (Permian to of South Africa)

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

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Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Parareptilia - Owenettidae
Colubrifer campi n. gen. n. sp.
Colubrifer campi n. gen. n. sp. Carroll 1982 parareptile
UCMP 42773 (type)