Kroonplaas, Beaufort West (Permian of South Africa)

Where: Western Cape, South Africa (32.5° S, 22.3° E: paleocoordinates 59.9° S, 34.6° 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

Collected by Boonstra

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 198716: authorized by Alex Dunhill, entered by Bethany Allen on 09.01.2019

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Taxonomic list

Osteichthyes
 Dicynodontia -
 Therocephalia - Pristerognathidae
Alepognathus angustioriceps n. sp. Boonstra 1931 therapsid
Cynariognathus paucioridens n. sp. Boonstra 1954 therapsid