Farm Somersfontein (Permian of South Africa)

Where: Philippolis, South Africa (30.1° S, 25.0° E)

• Paleocoordinates: 54.3° S, 22.4° W (Wright 2013)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

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

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: K. D. Angielczyk and B. S. Rubidge. 2013. Skeletal morphology, phylogenetic relationships and stratigraphic range of Eosimops newtoni Broom, 1921, a pylaecephalid dicynodont (Therapsida, Anomodontia) from the Middle Permian of South Africa. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 11(2):191-213 [R. Butler/J. Benito Moreno]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 196357: authorized by Alex Dunhill, entered by Bethany Allen on 10.09.2018

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Taxonomic list

Osteichthyes
 Dicynodontia - Pylaecephalidae
Eosimops newtoni Broom 1921 dicynodont
 Therocephalia - Scylacosauridae
Scylacosauridae indet. Broom 1903 therapsid
Reptilia
 Parareptilia -
Eunotosaurus sp. Seeley 1892 parareptile