Species: anoplus MODESTO, SUES & DAMIAN, 2001
Etymology: Greek, anoplos, "without arms or armor": alludes to the absence fo cheek spines that ornimaent many of its procolophonid relatives.

Holotype: SAM PK-11192

Locality: Barendskraal farm, Middelburg District, Eastern Cape Province, South Africa.

Horizon: Palingkloof Member, Balfour Formation (old Katberg Formation), Beaufort Group.

Biostratigraphy: Lystrosaurus Assemblage zone.

Age: Early Scythian Epoch, Early Triassic.

Material: Skull and mandible posterior to the external nares, vertebral fragments and cervical rib fragments.

Referred material:

BOTHA, MODESTO & SMITH, 2007

Locality: Base of a hill on the farm Vangfontein, an annexe of Nooitgedacht 25, Middleburg District, Eastern Cape Provine, South Africa.

Horizon: Palingkloff Member, Balfour Formation, Beaufort Group.

Biostratigraphy: Lystrosaurus Assemblage zone.

Age: Early Scythian Epoch, Early Triassic.

Material:

NMQR 3544: Partial, articulated anterior half of a skeleton preserved to the 15th presacral vertebra.

MacDOUGAL MODESTO & BOTHA-BRINK, 2013

NMQR 3556: A patial juvenile skeleton with skull and various disarticulated postcranial elements.

NMQR 3602: Near complete juvenile skeletons.

 

DAMIANI, NEVELING, MODESTO & YATES, 2004

Locality: Maanhaar hill, Farm Barendskraal, near Middleburg, Eastern Cape Province, South Africa.

Horizon: Palingkloff Member, Balfour Formation, Beaufort Group.

Biostratigraphy: Lystrosaurus Assemblage zone.

Age: Early Scythian Epoch, Early Triassic.

Material:

BP/1/5779: Partial skull that is slightly larger than the holotype:

BP/1/5879, 6027: Unprepared specimens.