Where: Western Cape, South Africa (33.2° S, 20.9° E)
• Paleocoordinates: 52.3° S, 29.5° 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 H. Zinn, Boonstra in 1941 - 1951
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 198723: authorized by Alex Dunhill, entered by Bethany Allen on 09.01.2019
Creative Commons license: CC0 (CC0)
Taxonomic list
Osteichthyes | |
"Anteosaurus laticeps n. sp." = Anteosaurus magnificus
"Anteosaurus laticeps n. sp." = Anteosaurus magnificus Watson 1921 therapsid | |
Struthiocephalus whaitsi Haughton 1915 therapsid | |
Dicynodon sp., "Dicynodon pseudojouberti" = Diictodon pseudojouberti
Dicynodon sp. Owen 1845 dicynodont
"Dicynodon pseudojouberti" = Diictodon pseudojouberti Boonstra 1948 dicynodont | |
Pristerognathidae indet. Broom 1908 therapsid | |
Reptilia | |
Bradysaurus sp. Watson 1914 parareptile |