Kraai river (Kra 12) (Triassic to of South Africa)

Where: Eastern Cape, South Africa (30.7° S, 26.8° E: paleocoordinates 66.7° S, 14.8° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Burgersdorp Formation (Beaufort Group), Spathian to Spathian (251.3 - 242.0 Ma)

• Upper Beaufort, Karoo Basin

Environment/lithology: fluvial; fine-grained, gray sandstone

• "extensive lowlying fluviatile plain; point bar, channel bar, levee" (Anderson and Anderson 1985 (ref. 6188))
• "light olive grey, fine sandstone, large-scale cross-bedding" (Anderson and Anderson 1985 (ref. 6188))

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: cast, mold/impression

Collection methods: collection was made by Brown 1890, it resides at the South African Museum (SAM) in Cape Town

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 14364: authorized by Hallie Sims, entered by Heather Lindon on 01.06.2002

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Gregicaulis dubius