Where: Western Cape, South Africa (32.7° S, 21.0° E: paleocoordinates 58.9° S, 35.5° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Tapinocephalus other zone, Capitanian (264.3 - 259.5 Ma)
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Reposited in the AMNH
Primary reference: L. D. Boonstra. 1936. Some features of the cranial morphology of the tapinocephalid deinocephalians. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 72(2):75-98 [A. Dunhill/B. Allen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 198663: authorized by Alex Dunhill, entered by Bethany Allen on 04.01.2019
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Osteichthyes | |
"Taurops macrodon n. sp." = Tapinocephalus atherstonii
"Taurops macrodon n. sp." = Tapinocephalus atherstonii Owen 1876 therapsid AMNH 5610 (holotype), snout
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