Where: Eastern Cape, South Africa (30.7° S, 26.7° E: paleocoordinates 66.6° S, 15.0° 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 Anderson and Anderson 1982, it resides at the Botanical Research Institute in Pretoria
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 20686: 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 | |
Calamites aliwalensis Anderson and Anderson 1985 |