Loskop - donga (Los 211) (Permian to of South Africa)

Where: Kwazulu-Natal, South Africa (28.8° S, 29.7° E: paleocoordinates 65.5° S, 16.9° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Estcourt Formation (Beaufort Group), Wuchiapingian to Wuchiapingian (259.9 - 250.5 Ma)

• Lower Beaufort, NE Karoo Basin

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Reposited in the BPI

• collection made by Benecke, Anderson and Anderson 1969-71 (resides at BPI), and by van Dijk 1957-84 (resides at the Natal Museum in Pietermaritzburg (NMP))

Primary reference: J. M. Anderson and H. M. Anderson. 1985. Palaeoflora of Southern Africa. Prodromus of South African Megafloras Devonian to Lower Cretaceous 1-423 [P. Gensel/P. Gensel/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 14338: authorized by Hallie Sims, entered by Heather Lindon on 31.05.2002

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Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Arberiopsida
 Arberiales -
Glossopteris spp. Brongniart 1828
Lidgettonia inhluzanensis
leaves, also lists 1 scale leaf specimen
Polypodiopsida
 Equisetales - Equisetidae
Phyllotheca australis Brongniart 1828
 Equisetidae - Equisetidae
"Sphenophyllum speciosum" = Trizygia speciosa
"Sphenophyllum speciosum" = Trizygia speciosa Royle 1840