Jammerberg, Wepener District (Triassic of South Africa)

Where: Free State, South Africa (29.7° S, 27.0° E: paleocoordinates 66.5° S, 10.3° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Cynognathus Assemblage Zone Subzone B other zone, Beaufort Group, Anisian (247.2 - 242.0 Ma)

• Collected from the Cynognathus Assemblage Zone, ?Subzone B; Subzone B is considered early Anisian in age.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; fine-grained sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by E. C. N. van Hoepen in 1927

• NM, National Museum Bloemfontein

Primary reference: R. J. Damiani and P. J. Hancox. 2003. New mastodonsaurid temnospondyls from the Cynognathus Assemblage Zone (Upper Beaufort Group; Karoo Basin) of South Africa. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 23(1):54-66 [R. Butler/R. Butler]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 96328: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Richard Butler on 01.06.2010

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Taxonomic list

Amphibia
 Temnospondyli - Mastodonsauridae
Jammerbergia formops n. gen. n. sp.
Jammerbergia formops n. gen. n. sp. Damiani and Hancox 2003 tetrapod
NM QR 1436, partial skull