Thelephon contritus Gow 1977

Reptilia - Parareptilia - Procolophonidae

Alternative combination: Thelegnathus contritus

Full reference: C. E. Gow. 1977. New Procolophonids from the Triassic Cynognathus Zone of South Africa. Annals of the South African Museum 72(6):109-124

Belongs to Thelephon according to S.P. Modesto and R. J. Damiani 2003

See also Gow 1977

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: BP/1/3512, a partial skeleton (lacking the snout and anterior third of the mandible). Its type locality is Winnaarsbaken, which is in an Anisian dry floodplain siliciclastic in the Burgersdorp Formation of South Africa.

Distribution: found only at Winnaarsbaken

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