Genus: Nochelesaurus HAUGHTON & BOONSTRA, 1929
Etymology: Greek, nokheles, “slow, sluggish” and Greek, sauros, “lizard”: Sluggish lizard.
= Dolichopareia HAUGHTON & BOONSTRA, 1929
Etymology: Greek, dolikhos, “long” and Greek, pareia, “cheek”: Long cheek.
= Nochelosaurus HUENE, 1956 (sic)

Species: alexanderi HAUGHTON & BOONSTRA, 1929
Etymology: In honor of Dr. Alexander L. du Toit.
= Embrithosaurus alexanderi (HAUGHTON & BOONSTRA, 1929) KUHN, 1961

Holotype: SAM-PK-6239

Locality: Boesmanskop, Beaufort West District, Western Cape Province, South Africa.

Horizon: Middle Abrahamskraal Formation.

Biostratigraphy: Tapinocephalus zone.

Age: Early Tatarian age, Guadelupian Stage, Middle Zeichstein Epoch, Middle Permian.

Material: Skull missing most of palate and left cheek, part of right lower jaw, 6 presacral and some caudal vertebrae, most of shoulder girdle, left humerus and partial right hindlimb.

Referred material:

SAM-PK-6239A: A large right cheek cranial fragment.

VAN DEN BRANT, BENOIT, ABDALA & RUBIDGE, 2021

FMNH UR 2436: A distal humerus, a complete radius, and the proximal end of another radius.

FMNH UR 2480: 21 weathered and aticualted vertebrae, a huemrus, both tibia, 1 tarsal element, and some postcranial elements.

 

HAUGHTON & BOONSTRA, 1929

Locality: Klein Koedoeskop, Beaufort West District, Western Cape Province, South Africa.

Horizon: Middle Abrahamskraal Formation.

Biostratigraphy: Tapinocephalus zone.

Age: Early Tatarian age, Guadelupian Stage, Middle Zeichstein Epoch, Middle Permian.

Material:

SAM-PK-8944: Complete arch of mandible, partial right and left scapulocoracoid, right and left clavicles, interclavicle, left humerus, ulnae, right and left radius and manus.


= Dolichopareia angusta HAUGHTON & BOONSTRA, 1929
Etymology:
= Embrithosaurus angustus (HAUGHTON & BOONSTRA, 1929) KUHN, 1961

Holotype: SAM-PK-6238

Locality: Boesmanskop, Beaufort West District, Western Cape Province, South Africa.

Horizon: Middle Abrahamskraal Formation.

Biostratigraphy: Tapinocephalus zone.

Age: Early Tatarian age, Guadelupian Stage, Middle Zeichstein Epoch, Middle Permian.

Material: Skull and lower jaw, 4 cervicals, 10 dorsal vertebrae, numerous ribs, interclavicle, right scapulocoracoid, radius, ulna, tibia, and fibula, both humeri and some osteoderms.
LEE, 1997…A second right humerus bears this number but is form a different animal (the matrix is different and the number is written in different handwritting…

Referred material:

Locality: Leeuw River, Beaufort West District, Western Cape Province, South Africa.

Horizon: Middle Abrahamskraal Formation.

Biostratigraphy: Tapinocephalus zone.

Age: Early Tatarian age, Guadelupian Stage, Middle Zeichstein Epoch, Middle Permian.

Material:

SAM-PK-3717: Fragmentary skull, part of leftscapulocoracoid, parts of the clavicle, partial interclavicle and left humerus.

 

HAUGHTON & BOONSTRA, 1929

Locality: Abrahams Kraal, Prince Albert District, Western Cape Province, South Africa.

Horizon: Middle Abrahamskraal Formation.

Biostratigraphy: Tapinocephalus zone.

Age: Early Tatarian age, Guadelupian Stage, Middle Zeichstein Epoch, Middle Permian.

Material:

SAM-PK-6535: Right ramus, partial right and left scapulocoracoid, right ane left clavicle, right humerus, and parts of right and left ulna.

 

= Brachypareia watsoni HAUGHTON & BOONSTRA, 1929
Etymology: In honor of Prof. David Meredith Seares Watson (1886-1973), British paleontologist.
= Pareiasaurus bombidens SEELEY, 1888
Etymology:
= Bradysaurus watsoni (HAUGHTON & BOONSTRA, 1929) KUHN, 1961

Holotype: SAM-PK-6240

Locality: Abrahams Kraal, Prince Albert District, Western Cape Province, South Africa.

Horizon: Middle Abrahamskraal Formation.

Biostratigraphy: Tapinocephalus zone.

Age: Early Tatarian age, Guadelupian Stage, Middle Zeichstein Epoch, Middle Permian.

Referred material:

HAUGHTON & BOONSTRA, 1929

Locality: Hottentot’s River, Beaufort West District, Western Cape Province, South Africa.

Horizon: Middle Abrahamskraal Formation.

Biostratigraphy: Tapinocephalus zone.

Age: Early Tatarian age, Guadelupian Stage, Middle Zeichstein Epoch, Middle Permian.

Material:

SAM-PK-3030: Left ramus and anterior part of the right.

 

HAUGHTON & BOONSTRA, 1929

Locality: Sewefontein, Prince Albert District, Western Cape Province, South Africa.

Horizon: Middle Abrahamskraal Formation.

Biostratigraphy: Tapinocephalus zone.

Age: Early Tatarian age, Guadelupian Stage, Middle Zeichstein Epoch, Middle Permian.

Material:

SAM-PK-9114: Anterior arch of mandible.

 

Locality: Vogelfontein, Prince Albert District, Western Cape Province, South Africa.

Horizon: Middle Abrahamskraal Formation.

Biostratigraphy: Tapinocephalus zone.

Age: Early Tatarian age, Guadelupian Stage, Middle Zeichstein Epoch, Middle Permian.

Material:

SAM-PK-9118: Left ramus.