Where: Ruvuma, Tanzania (11.0° S, 37.3° E)
• Paleocoordinates: 39.7° S, 28.8° E (Wright 2013)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
When: Carnian to Carnian (237.0 - 205.7 Ma)
• Specimens collected from unnamed strata of uncertain age. Referral of the rhynchosaurs to Hyperodapedon suggests a Carnian to early Norian age for the locality given the stratigraphic distribution of Hyperodapedon elsewhere
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by G. M. Stockley
Primary reference: D. Boonstra. 1953. A note on some rhynchosaurian remains from Tanganyika Territory. Annals of the South African Museum 42:1-4 [R. Butler/R. Butler]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 98625: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Richard Butler on 15.10.2010
Creative Commons license: CC0 (CC0)
Taxonomic list
Reptilia | |
Scaphonyx africanus n. sp., "Scaphonyx stockleyi n. sp." = Hyperodapedon stockleyi
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