Knoffelfontein (Permian of South Africa)

Where: Western Cape, South Africa (33.1° S, 21.0° E: paleocoordinates 59.0° S, 36.2° 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

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 198676: authorized by Alex Dunhill, entered by Bethany Allen on 05.01.2019

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Procolophonomorpha -
Pareiasauria indet., "Bradysaurus seeleyi" = Bradysaurus seeleyi, "Bradysaurus vanderbyli" = Bradysaurus seeleyi, "Brachypareia rogersi" = Pareiasaurus serridens
Pareiasauria indet. Seeley 1888 parareptile
"femur"
"Bradysaurus seeleyi" = Bradysaurus seeleyi Haughton and Boonstra 1929 parareptile
"complete skeleton with feet"
"Bradysaurus vanderbyli" = Bradysaurus seeleyi Haughton and Boonstra 1929 parareptile
"Brachypareia rogersi" = Pareiasaurus serridens Owen parareptile
Osteichthyes
 Therocephalia - Pristerognathidae
Scymnosaurus major Boonstra 1954 therapsid
"skull"