Colesburg district (Permian of South Africa)

Where: Northern Cape, South Africa (30.7° S, 25.1° E: paleocoordinates 62.5° S, 25.8° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Cistecephalus Assemblage Zone other zone, Wuchiapingian (259.9 - 254.2 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: SAM: South African Museum, Cape Town

Primary reference: R. Broom. 1903. On Some New Primitive Theriodonts in the South African Museum. Annals of the South African Museum 4(2):147-158 [J. Mueller/T. Liebrecht]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 179622: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Richard Butler on 22.06.2016

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Taxonomic list

Osteichthyes
 Therocephalia -
Scylacosaurus sclateri n. gen. n. sp.
Scylacosaurus sclateri n. gen. n. sp. Broom 1903 therapsid
SAM specimen, anterior two thirds of a skull