Where: Eastern Cape, South Africa (30.7° S, 26.7° E: paleocoordinates 66.6° S, 14.9° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
When: Burgersdorp Formation (Beaufort Group), Spathian to Spathian (251.3 - 242.0 Ma)
• Upper Beaufort, Karoo Basin
Environment/lithology: fluvial; fine-grained, gray sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: cast, mold/impression
Collection methods: collection was made by Brown 1903-05, it resides at the South African Museum (SAM) in Cape Town
Primary reference: J. M. Anderson and H. M. Anderson. 1985. Palaeoflora of Southern Africa. Prodromus of South African Megafloras Devonian to Lower Cretaceous 1-423 [P. Gensel/P. Gensel/P. Wagner]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 20655: authorized by Hallie Sims, entered by Heather Lindon on 03.06.2002
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
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Polypodiopsida | |
Cladophlebis "sp. A" Brongniart 1849 | |
Calamites aliwalensis Anderson and Anderson 1985 | |
unclassified | |
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Peltaspermopsida | |
Lepidopteris brownii, "Lepidopteris madagascariensis" = Lepidopteris stormbergensis
"Lepidopteris madagascariensis" = Lepidopteris stormbergensis Seward 1903 | |
Cycadopsida | |
"Dicroidium hughesii" = Thinnfeldia hughesi
"Dicroidium hughesii" = Thinnfeldia hughesi Feistmantel 1882 cycads | |
Pseudoctenis brownii cycads | |
"Nilssonia reservoirensis" = Nilsonia
"Nilssonia reservoirensis" = Nilsonia cycads | |
Ginkgoites | |
Ginkgoopsida | |