Vindraersfontein, Beaufort West (Permian of South Africa)

Where: Western Cape, South Africa (32.3° S, 22.6° E: paleocoordinates 60.0° S, 34.1° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-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 198711: authorized by Alex Dunhill, entered by Bethany Allen on 09.01.2019

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Taxonomic list

Osteichthyes
 Therocephalia - Pristerognathidae
Therioides cyniscus n. sp. Boonstra 1953 therapsid
 Therapsida - Titanosuchidae
Jonkeria sp. Hoepen 1916 therapsid
 Therapsida - Anteosauridae
Anteosaurus sp. Watson 1921 therapsid