Rouxville area (Triassic of South Africa)

Where: Free State, South Africa (30.4° S, 26.8° E: paleocoordinates 61.5° S, 5.9° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Beaufort Group, Carnian (237.0 - 228.0 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: fluvial-lacustrine; sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: adpression

Collected by A. Woodward, R. A. Albertyn; reposited in the BMNH

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

• includes specimens at BMNH and Stellenbosch

Primary reference: A. S. Woodward. 1895. Catalogue of the Fossil Fishes in the British Museum (Natural History), Part III 1-544 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 131927: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Priscilla Vazquez on 02.08.2012, edited by Matthew Carrano

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Actinopteri
 Perleidiformes - Cleithrolepidae
Cleithrolepis extoni n. sp., "Cleithrolepis minor n. sp." = Cleithrolepidina minor
Cleithrolepis extoni n. sp. Woodward 1888
BMNH P.5455-a (presented by Hugh Exton, Esq., M.D., 1888)
"Cleithrolepis minor n. sp." = Cleithrolepidina minor Broom 1913
Osteichthyes
 Palaeonisciformes - Palaeoniscidae
"? Dictyopyge draperi n. sp." = Dicellopyge lissocephalus
"? Dictyopyge draperi n. sp." = Dicellopyge lissocephalus Brough 1931