Where: Eastern Cape, South Africa (31.6° S, 26.4° E: paleocoordinates 67.3° S, 14.8° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Cynognathus Assemblage Zone Subzone C other zone, Burgersdorp Formation (Beaufort Group), Anisian (247.2 - 242.0 Ma)
• Collected from the upper Burgersdorp Formation, Cynognathus Assemblage Zone, Subzone C; Subzone C is considered late Anisian in age
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; fine-grained, gray sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by P. J. Hancox; reposited in the BPI
Collection methods: surface (float), surface (in situ),
Primary reference: R. J. Damiani and P. J. Hancox. 2003. New mastodonsaurid temnospondyls from the Cynognathus Assemblage Zone (Upper Beaufort Group; Karoo Basin) of South Africa. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 23(1):54-66 [R. Butler/R. Butler]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 96327: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Richard Butler on 01.06.2010
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Paracyclotosaurus morganorum n. sp.
Paracyclotosaurus morganorum n. sp. Damiani and Hancox 2003 tetrapod BP/1/5551, posterior portion of skull
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