Where: Western Cape, South Africa (32.7° S, 21.5° E)
• Paleocoordinates: 52.6° S, 28.4° W (Wright 2013)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Tapinocephalus other zone, Capitanian (264.3 - 259.5 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
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 198675: authorized by Alex Dunhill, entered by Bethany Allen on 05.01.2019
Creative Commons license: CC0 (CC0)
Taxonomic list
| Osteichthyes | |
"Anteosaurus acutirostris n. sp." = Anteosaurus magnificus
"Anteosaurus acutirostris n. sp." = Anteosaurus magnificus Watson 1921 therapsid | |
Avenantia kruisvleiensis n. sp., Moschops sp.
Avenantia kruisvleiensis n. sp. Boonstra 1952 therapsid
Moschops sp. Broom 1911 therapsid "the mass entombment of cranial and postcranial elements of at least a dozen Moschops individuals"
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| Reptilia | |
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Bradysaurus seeleyi Haughton and Boonstra 1929 parareptile | |