Lystrosaurus Assemblage Zone
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| Stratigraphy of the Karoo Supergroup in the Karoo Basin | ||||
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| Period | Group | Formation west of 24°E | Formation east of 24°E | Assemblage Zone |
| Jurassic | Drakensberg | Hiatus | Drakensberg | |
| Stormberg | Clarens | |||
| Triassic | Elliot | |||
| Molteno | ||||
| Beaufort | ||||
| Burgersdorp | Cynognathus | |||
| Katberg | Lystrosaurus | |||
| Balfour | ||||
| Permian | Dicynodon | |||
| Teekloof | ||||
| Cistecephalus | ||||
| Middleton | ||||
| Tropidostoma | ||||
| Pristerognathus | ||||
| Abrahams-Kraal | Koonap | |||
| Tapinocephalus | ||||
| Eodicynodon | ||||
| Ecca | Waterford | Waterford | ||
| Tierberg / Fort Brown | Fort Brown | |||
| Laingsburg / Ripon | Ripon | |||
| Collingham | Collingham | |||
| White Hill | White Hill | |||
| Prince Albert | Prince Albert | |||
| Carboniferous | Dwyka | Elandsvlei | Elandsvlei | |
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The Lystrosaurus Assemblage Zone is a geological stratum and a faunal zone of the Beaufort Group, of the South African Karoo. The name refers to Lystrosaurus, a genus of mammal-like reptile, a dominant life form of the Early Triassic Period, whose fossils have been found in that structure.
Contents
Paleobiota
Synapsids
†Anomodonts
Color key
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Notes Uncertain or tentative taxa are in small text; |
| Genus | Species | Location | Stratigraphic position | Material | Notes | Images |
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| Lystrosaurus | L. murrayi
L. declivis L. curvatus ?L. maccaigi |
†Therocephalians
Color key
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Notes Uncertain or tentative taxa are in small text; |
| Genus | Species | Location | Stratigraphic position | Material | Notes | Images |
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| Regisaurus | R.jacobi
R.sp |
Zeekoeigat, Venterstad | almost complete skeleton(the best preserved of all therocephalians) | A regisaurid |
Sauropsids
Procolophonomorphs
Color key
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Notes Uncertain or tentative taxa are in small text; |
| Genus | Species | Location | Stratigraphic position | Material | Notes | Images |
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| Procolophon | P. trigoniceps | A Procolophonid |
References
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- South Africa at Palaeocritti
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