Where: Western Cape, South Africa (32.6° S, 22.2° E)
• Paleocoordinates: 53.1° S, 28.0° W (Wright 2013)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Tapinocephalus other zone, Capitanian (264.3 - 259.5 Ma)
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by Haughton, Whaits in 1913
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 198718: authorized by Alex Dunhill, entered by Bethany Allen on 09.01.2019
Creative Commons license: CC0 (CC0)
Taxonomic list
Osteichthyes | |
Anteosaurus sp. Watson 1921 therapsid | |
Tapinocephalia indet. therapsid | |
Struthiocephalus whaitsi n. sp.
Struthiocephalus whaitsi n. sp. Haughton 1915 therapsid |