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)
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