Where: Eastern Cape, South Africa (32.8° S, 26.6° E: paleocoordinates 64.6° S, 28.9° 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)
• Cistecephalus Assemblage Zone constrained as Wuchiapingian on the basis of radioisotopic data (Rubidge et al. 2013)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; siliciclastic sediments
Size class: macrofossils
Reposited in the BMNH
Primary reference: D. S. Sigogneau-Russell. 1989. Theriodontia I: Phthinosuchia, Biarmosuchia, Eotitanosuchia, Gorgonopsia. Encyclopedia of Paleoherpetology [R. Butler/R. Butler/R. Butler]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 178694: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Richard Butler on 12.05.2016
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Osteichthyes | |
Arctops willistoni n. gen. n. sp.
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