Farm Bokpoort, Wepener (Permian of South Africa)

Where: Free State, South Africa (29.6° S, 27.0° E: paleocoordinates 63.8° S, 21.2° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Dicynodon zone, Lopingian (259.9 - 252.2 Ma)

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: A. K. Huttenlocker and J. Botha-Brink. 2013. Body size and growth patterns in the therocephalian Moschorhinus kitchingi (Therapsida: Eutheriodontia) before and after the end-Permian extinction in South Africa. Paleobiology 39(2):253-277 [A. Dunhill/B. Allen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 196576: authorized by Alex Dunhill, entered by Bethany Allen on 25.09.2018

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Osteichthyes
 Therocephalia - Akidnognathidae
Moschorhinus kitchingi Broom 1920 therapsid
NMQR 3351, skull, lower jaw and nearly complete skeleton