Species: baini HUXLEY, 1868
Etymology:

Holotype: BMNH R1234 (old BMNH SA 120?)

Locality: Sneeuwberg, Stylkrantz, Eastern Cape Province, Graaff Reint District,

Horizon:

Biostratigraphy: Dicynodon Assemblage zone (formerly Daptocephalus zone), or Cistecephalus zone.

Age: Tatarian Age, Lopingian Subepoch, Zechstein Epoch, Late Permian.

Material: Skeleton lacking skull, cervical and most of the caudal vertebrae.

After Carroll, 1975.

A) Dorsal view of humerus; B) Iguana iguana, dorsal view of humerus; C) medial and D) laterial view of left carpus; E) upper head of left femur, lower head of left femur of Iguana iguana; F) Iguana Iguana, left food in dorsal view; G) Left food ventral view; H) restoration of carpus in dorsal view (Modified from Carroll, 1975).

Referred material:

LYDEKKER, 1888

BMNH R1235 (old BMNH SA 121?): Imperfect skull, cervical vertebrae and the interclavicle.

BMNH 47093: Fragmentary skeleton.

 

= Niphosaurus kermacki EVANS, 1985
Etymology:

Holotype: BMNH R.1235

Locality: Stylkranz, Sneewberg Mountian Range, South Africa.

Horizon:

Biostratigraphy:

Age:
Not: Uncertain. CARROLL 1975 reports that deposits of both the Cistecephalus and Daptocephalus Zone outcrop in this region, Bain is not specific Niphosaurus in Late Permian.

Material: Fragmentary skull and skeleton before the scapula.