Esperance, Sutherland (Permian of South Africa)

Where: Northern Cape, South Africa (32.4° S, 20.7° E: paleocoordinates 58.5° S, 35.2° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

When: Tapinocephalus Assemblage Zone zone, Beaufort Group, Capitanian (264.3 - 259.5 Ma)

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: J. W. Kitching. 1977. The distribution of the Karroo vertebrate fauna. Memoirs of the Bernard Price Institute for Palaeontological Research 1:1-131 [H. Sims/J. Camp]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 181072: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Juan Benito Moreno on 17.08.2016

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Osteichthyes
 Dicynodontia - Pylaecephalidae
Robertia broomiana Boonstra 1948 dicynodont
SAM-PK-11703a, a skull
 Dicynodontia -
"Dicynodon pseudojouberti" = Diictodon pseudojouberti
"Dicynodon pseudojouberti" = Diictodon pseudojouberti Boonstra 1948 dicynodont
Reptilia
 Procolophonomorpha -
Bradysaurus sp. Watson 1914 parareptile