Putfontein (Permian of South Africa)

Where: Western Cape, South Africa (32.6° S, 22.4° E: paleocoordinates 60.0° S, 34.7° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Tapinocephalus Assemblage other zone, Poortjie Member (Teekloof Formation), Capitanian (264.3 - 259.5 Ma)

• The specimen originated 10–20 m above the base of the Poortjie Member

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; mudstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Michael Day, Christen Shelton; reposited in the BPI

Primary reference: M. O. Day, S. Güven, F. Abdala, S. Jirah, B. Rubidge and J. Almond. 2015. Youngest dinocephalian fossils extend the Tapinocephalus Zone, Karoo Basin, South Africa. South African Journal of Science 111:2014-0309 [R. Butler/R. Butler/R. Butler]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 171639: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Richard Butler on 15.07.2015

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Osteichthyes
 Therapsida - Tapinocephalidae
Criocephalosaurus sp. Kammerer and Sidor 2002 therapsid
BP/1/7214, partial skull