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
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Osteichthyes | |
Scylacosaurus sclateri n. gen. n. sp.
Scylacosaurus sclateri n. gen. n. sp. Broom 1903 therapsid SAM specimen, anterior two thirds of a skull
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