Also known as Hottentots River, Hottentot's River

Where: Western Cape, South Africa (32.4° S, 22.0° E: paleocoordinates 59.6° S, 34.4° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Tapinocephalus Assemblage other zone, Abrahamskraal Formation (Beaufort Group), Capitanian (264.3 - 259.5 Ma)

• Kitching (1977, "Distribution of the Karroo Vertebrate Fauna") assigns this locality to the lower and middle Tapinocephalus Zone. Kammerer et al. (2015) and Angielczyk et al. (2016) list this locality as Tapinocephalus Zone, and the latter note that "Day (2013) suggested that strata on this farm likely fall in the stratigraphic interval between 2350 and 2450 m above the base of the Abrahamskraal Formation in this part of the Karoo Basin." Radioisotopic data constrains the likely age of the Tapinocephalus Zone to Capitanian (Rubidge et al. 2013).

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: "floodplain"; sandstone and red claystone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Collected by D. M. S. Watson; reposited in the BMNH, FMNH

Collection methods: mechanical, peel or thin section,

• AM: Albany Museum

Primary reference: R. Broom. 1913. On four new fossil reptiles from the Beaufort Series, South Africa. Records of the Albany Museum 2:397-401 [R. Butler/R. Butler]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 13004: authorized by Chris Sidor, entered by Chris Sidor on 15.01.2002, edited by Richard Butler, Torsten Liebrecht and Bethany Allen

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