Eerste Geluk 131 (Triassic of South Africa)

Also known as Eerste Geuluk

Where: Free State, South Africa (28.3° S, 28.7° E: paleocoordinates 66.0° S, 9.8° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Cynognathus subzone A other zone, Burgersdorp Formation (Beaufort Group), Olenekian (251.2 - 247.2 Ma)

• Lower horizons of the Burgersdorp Formation; Cynognathus subzone A; late Olenekian age

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: trace

Primary reference: F. Abdala, J. Neveling, and J. Welman. 2006. A new trirachodontid cynodont from the lower levels of the Burgersdorp Formation (Lower Triassic) of the Beaufort Group, South Africa and the cladistic relationships of Gondwanan gomphodonts. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 147:383-413 [R. Butler/R. Butler]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 98613: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Richard Butler on 14.10.2010, edited by Bethany Allen

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Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Diapsida - Erythrosuchidae
Garjainia madiba2 Gower et al. 2014 archosauromorph
NMQR 3049, 3051
Osteichthyes
 Therocephalia - Nothogomphodontidae
Microgomphodon oligocynus1 Seeley 1895 therapsid
NMQR 3189
 Therapsida - Trirachodontidae
Langbergia modisei Abdala et al. 2006 cynodont
NMQR 3280, small skull. NMQR 3281, burrow cast including three skulls and partial postcranium