Karbonaatjies Farm (Devonian of South Africa)

Where: South Africa (33.4° S, 19.9° E: paleocoordinates 60.0° S, 148.9° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Voorstehoek Formation, Emsian (407.6 - 393.3 Ma)

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; siltstone

• Mudrock, siltstone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: M. Reid, A. W. Hunter, W. L. Taylor and E. M. Bordy. 2019. A new genus of Protasteridae (Ophiuridea) from the Lower Devonian Bokkeveld Group of South Africa. Palaeontologia africana 53:66-74 [W. Kiessling/M. Krause]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 199483: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 24.01.2019

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Taxonomic list

Ophiuroidea
 Oegophiurida - Protasteridae
Gamiroaster tempestatis Reid et al. 2019 brittle star