Skoorsteen, Prince Albert (Permian of South Africa)

Where: Western Cape, South Africa (32.8° S, 21.5° E: paleocoordinates 59.3° S, 35.6° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

• The minimum date included here is a direct radioisotopic date for the overlying Pristerognathus Assemblage Zone from Rubidge et al. (2013, Geology)

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 181089: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Juan Benito Moreno on 19.08.2016

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Osteichthyes
 Dicynodontia - Pylaecephalidae
Robertia sp. Boonstra 1948 dicynodont
SAM 11890, a skull