Kaaimansgat 146 (Triassic of South Africa)

Where: Free State, South Africa (30.4° S, 26.8° E: paleocoordinates 66.1° S, 16.3° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Cynognathus Assemblage Zone 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

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by G. Grossarth; reposited in the BPI, BSP

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 98618: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Richard Butler on 14.10.2010, edited by Bethany Allen

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Taxonomic list

Osteichthyes
 Therapsida - Trirachodontidae
Langbergia modisei Abdala et al. 2006 cynodont
SAM-PK-K11481, skull and lower jaw
 Therocephalia - Nothogomphodontidae
Microgomphodon oligocynus1 Seeley 1895 therapsid
BSP 1934-VIII-13
Amphibia
 Temnospondyli - Mastodonsauridae
"Capitosaurus haughtoni n. sp." = Kestrosaurus dreyeri2
"Capitosaurus haughtoni n. sp." = Kestrosaurus dreyeri2 Haughton 1925 tetrapod
BSPG 1934 VIII 50, partial skull