Farm Uitkyk, Calvinia District (Permian of South Africa)

Where: Northern Cape, South Africa (31.5° S, 19.8° E: paleocoordinates 57.5° S, 34.0° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Diictodon-Styracocephalus Subzone other zone, Abrahamskraal Formation (Beaufort Group), Capitanian (264.3 - 259.5 Ma)

• Diictodon-Styracocephalus Subzone considered as Capitanian by Day & Rubidge (2020).

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by John Nyaphuli & Bruce S. Rubidge

• Repositories: South African Museum, Capetown, South Africa (SAM).

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: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 230333: authorized by Jocelyn Falconnet, entered by Jocelyn Falconnet on 10.06.2023

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Osteichthyes
 Therapsida - Titanosuchidae
Jonkeria ingens Broom 1923 therapsid
SAM 737, proximal end of a tibia