Kruisvlei, Beaufort West (Permian of South Africa)

Where: Western Cape, South Africa (32.7° S, 21.5° E: paleocoordinates 59.3° S, 35.2° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

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: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 198675: authorized by Alex Dunhill, entered by Bethany Allen on 05.01.2019

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Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Procolophonomorpha -
Bradysaurus seeleyi Haughton and Boonstra 1929 parareptile
Osteichthyes
 Therapsida - Tapinocephalidae
Moschops sp. Broom 1911 therapsid
"the mass entombment of cranial and postcranial elements of at least a dozen Moschops individuals"
Avenantia kruisvleiensis n. sp. Boonstra 1952 therapsid
 Therapsida - Anteosauridae
"Anteosaurus acutirostris n. sp." = Anteosaurus magnificus
"Anteosaurus acutirostris n. sp." = Anteosaurus magnificus Watson 1921 therapsid