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 (264.3 - 259.5 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 | |
"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 | |