Bokfontein (Permian of South Africa)

Where: Western Cape, South Africa (33.1° S, 22.4° E: paleocoordinates 60.1° S, 35.6° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by P. H. du Plessis in 1905

Primary reference: L. D. Boonstra. 1969. The fauna of the Tapinocephalus Zone (Beaufort Beds of the Karoo). Annals of the South African Museum 56(1):1-73 [A. Dunhill/B. Allen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 198664: authorized by Alex Dunhill, entered by Bethany Allen on 04.01.2019

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Taxonomic list

Osteichthyes
 Therapsida - Tapinocephalidae
"Pelosuchus priscus n. sp." = Keratocephalus moloch
"Pelosuchus priscus n. sp." = Keratocephalus moloch von Huene 1931 therapsid