(BERNARD PRICE INSTITUTE FOR PALAEONTOLOGICAL RESEARCH, 1973) Forey, P.; Gardiner, B. G.
The Lower Triassic of South Africa has
yielded an array of early dictyopygids (Brough,
1931, 1936) yet none of those advanced dictyopygids
so characteristic of the Upper Triassic of
North America (Schaeffer, 1967) has so far been
recorded from the African continent. The geographical
distribution of the dictyopygids appears
to be a discontinuous one with the Lower Triassic
forms coming mainly from South Africa, the
Middle Triassic ones from Australia and the Upper
Triassic forms from North America. It is thus
surprising to find a seemingly advanced dictyopygid
in the rather unfossiliferous Cave Sandstone of
Lesotho.