Môrester Farm (Permian of South Africa)

Where: Free State, South Africa (29.0° S, 26.0° E: paleocoordinates 61.8° S, 27.2° W)

When: Koonap Formation (Beaufort Group), Guadalupian (273.0 - 259.5 Ma)

Environment/lithology: deltaic; sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: mechanical, acetic

Primary reference: J. Benoit, P. R. Manger, V. Fernandez and B. S. Rubidge. 2016. Cranial Bosses of Choerosaurus dejageri (Therapsida, Therocephalia): Earliest Evidence of Cranial Display Structures in Eutheriodonts . PLoS 11(8):e0161457 [M. Uhen/B. Shipps/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 188669: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Brenlee Shipps on 11.09.2017

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Osteichthyes
 Therocephalia - Lycideopidae
Choerosaurus dejageri Haughton 1929 therapsid