ammonites
Lumku Catholic Mission (Triassic of South Africa)

Where: Eastern Cape, South Africa (31.7° S, 27.2° E: paleocoordinates 68.0° S, 13.8° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Burgersdorp Formation (Upper Beaufort Group), Anisian (247.2 - 242.0 Ma)

• Subzone B of the Cynognathus Assemblage Zone

Environment/lithology: fluvial; sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: original phosphate

Primary reference: J. A. Hopson and J. W. Kitching. 2001. A probainognathian cynodont from South Africa and the phylogeney of nonmammalian cynodonts. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 156(1):5-35 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen] more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 69697: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 01.03.2007