Introduction to the tetrapod biozonation of the Karoo Supergroup

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Research Article| June 01, 2020 Introduction to the tetrapod biozonation of the Karoo Supergroup R.M.H. Smith; R.M.H. Smith Evolutionary Studies Institute, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, 2050 South Africa Karoo Palaeontology, Iziko South African Museum, P.O. Box 61, Cape Town, 8000, South Africa e-mail: Roger.Smith4@wits.ac.za Search for other works by this author on: GSW Google Scholar B.S. Rubidge; B.S. Rubidge Evolutionary Studies Institute, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg 2050, South Africa e-mail: bruce.rubidge@wits.ac.za Search for other works by this author on: GSW Google Scholar M.O. Day; M.O. Day Department of Earth Sciences, Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW7 5BD, United Kingdom Evolutionary Studies Institute, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg 2050, South Africa e-mail: michael.day@nhm.ac.uk Search for other works by this author on: GSW Google Scholar J. Botha J. Botha National Museum, P.O. Box 266, Bloemfontein, 9300, South Africa Department of Zoology and Entomology, University of the Free State, 9300, South Africa e-mail: jbotha@nasmus.co.za Search for other works by this author on: GSW Google Scholar South African Journal of Geology (2020) 123 (2): 131–140. https://doi.org/10.25131/sajg.123.0009 Article history first online: 18 Jul 2020 Cite View This Citation Add to Citation Manager Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Search Site Citation R.M.H. Smith, B.S. Rubidge, M.O. Day, J. Botha; Introduction to the tetrapod biozonation of the Karoo Supergroup. South African Journal of Geology 2020;; 123 (2): 131–140. doi: https://doi.org/10.25131/sajg.123.0009 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Refmanager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search nav search search input Search input auto suggest search filter All ContentBy SocietySouth African Journal of Geology Search Advanced Search The main Karoo Basin of South Africa contains the most abundant, diverse, and time expansive record of terrestrial vertebrates around the Palaeozoic-Mesozoic transition. This 10 km thick sedimentary succession accumulated in a large intracratonic, retro-arc, foreland basin (Johnson 1991; Catuneanu et al. 2005) in front of the rising Cape Fold Belt portion of the Gondwanide Mountain range that fringed the southern margin of Gondwana. Today, rocks of the Karoo Supergroup have a spatial distribution of some 300 000 km2 (Smith 1990), which is more than one-half the land surface of South Africa. They were... You do not currently have access to this article.