Moerbeidal 648 (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

• small collection-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

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 98619: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Richard Butler on 14.10.2010

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Taxonomic list

Osteichthyes
 Therapsida - Trirachodontidae
Langbergia modisei Abdala et al. 2006 cynodont
CGP 1/33, skull and lower jaw