Where: Eastern Cape, South Africa (32.4° S, 24.3° E: paleocoordinates 62.6° S, 29.7° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Cistecephalus Assemblage Zone other zone, Beaufort Group, Wuchiapingian (259.9 - 254.2 Ma)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; siliciclastic sediments
Size class: macrofossils
Reposited in the AMNH
• SAM: Iziko South African Museum, Cape Town
Primary reference: S. H. Haughton. 1925. Investigations in South African fossil reptiles and amphibians (Part 13). Annals of the South African Museum 22:227-261 [R. Butler/R. Butler]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 144271: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Richard Butler on 03.05.2013, edited by Bethany Allen
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
| Osteichthyes | |
Moschops capensis n. sp.
Moschops capensis n. sp. Broom 1911 therapsid ANMH 5550 (holotype), skull; AMNH 5552 and 5553, both topotype skulls
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| Amphibia | |
"Rhinesuchus capensis n. sp." = Rhinesuchoides capensis
"Rhinesuchus capensis n. sp." = Rhinesuchoides capensis Haughton 1925 tetrapod SAM 7419, poorly preserved skull (holotype)
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