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
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Osteichthyes | |
"Pelosuchus priscus n. sp." = Keratocephalus moloch
"Pelosuchus priscus n. sp." = Keratocephalus moloch von Huene 1931 therapsid |