Roggekloof, Sutherland (Permian of South Africa)

Where: Northern Cape, South Africa (32.5° S, 20.8° E: paleocoordinates 58.7° S, 35.3° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Tapinocephalus zone, Capitanian (264.3 - 259.5 Ma)

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by A. R. E. Walker in 1909

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 198666: authorized by Alex Dunhill, entered by Bethany Allen on 04.01.2019

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Procolophonomorpha -
Bradysaurus sp. Watson 1914 parareptile
Osteichthyes
 Therocephalia - Pristerognathidae
Pristerognathoides roggeveldensis n. sp. Boonstra 1953 therapsid
 Therapsida -