Steenboksfontein, Merweville (Permian of South Africa)
Where: Western Cape, South Africa (32.9° S, 21.4° E: paleocoordinates 59.3° S, 35.7° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Tapinocephalus other zone, Capitanian (264.3 - 259.5 Ma)
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by Boonstra
Primary reference: L. D. Boonstra. 1969. The fauna of the Tapinocephalus Zone (Beaufort Beds of the Karoo). Annals of the South African Museum 56(1):1-73 [A. Dunhill/B. Allen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 198710: authorized by Alex Dunhill, entered by Bethany Allen on 09.01.2019
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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| Osteichthyes | |
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Dicynodon sp. Owen 1845 dicynodont | |
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Mormosaurus sp. Watson 1914 therapsid | |
"Parascapanodon sp." = Titanosuchus
"Parascapanodon sp." = Titanosuchus Owen 1876 therapsid | |
Ptomalestes avidus n. sp.
Ptomalestes avidus n. sp. Boonstra 1954 therapsid | |