Also known as Knoflock's Fontein
Where: Western Cape, South Africa (33.2° S, 21.8° E: paleocoordinates 59.6° S, 36.1° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Tapinocephalus other zone, Capitanian (264.3 - 259.5 Ma)
• "assigned to low in the Tapinocephalus zone by Kitching (1977)" (Lee 1997)
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: SAM - South African Museum, Cape Town, South Africa
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 198028: authorized by Alex Dunhill, entered by Bethany Allen on 07.12.2018
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Reptilia | |
Embrithosaurus schwarzi n. gen. n. sp.
Embrithosaurus schwarzi n. gen. n. sp. Watson 1914 parareptile SAM 8034 (holotype), complete skull and lower jaw with partial postcrania
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