Boesmanskop, Beaufort West (Permian of South Africa)

Where: Western Cape, South Africa (32.0° S, 22.7° E: paleocoordinates 60.0° S, 33.3° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Tapinocephalus other zone, Capitanian (265.1 - 259.9 Ma)

• "Lower Tapinocephalus Zone" (Lee 1997)

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: SAM - South African Museum, Cape Town

Primary reference: M. S. Y. Lee. 1997. A taxonomic revision of pareiasaurian reptiles: implications for Permian terrestrial paleoecology. Modern Geology 21:231-298 [J. Mueller/T. Liebrecht/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 197985: authorized by Alex Dunhill, entered by Bethany Allen on 05.12.2018

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Procolophonomorpha -
"Nochelesaurus alexanderi n. gen. n. sp." = Nochelesaurus alexanderi, "Dolichopareia angusta n. sp." = Nochelesaurus alexanderi
"Nochelesaurus alexanderi n. gen. n. sp." = Nochelesaurus alexanderi Haughton and Boonstra 1929 parareptile
SAM 6239 (holotype), partial skull, piece of lower jaw, fragmentary postcranial remains
"Dolichopareia angusta n. sp." = Nochelesaurus alexanderi Haughton and Boonstra 1929 parareptile