Burgersdorp (Bur 21) (Triassic to of South Africa)

Where: Eastern Cape, South Africa (31.0° S, 26.3° E: paleocoordinates 66.5° S, 16.0° 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

• "extensive lowlying fluviatile plain; point bar, channel bar, levee" (Anderson and Anderson 1985 (ref. 6188))
• "light olive grey, fine sandstone, large-scale cross-bedding" (Anderson and Anderson 1985 (ref. 6188))

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 20694: authorized by Hallie Sims, entered by Michele Reynolds on 03.06.2002

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Taxonomic list

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unclassified
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Tracheophyta indet.
Tracheophyta indet.
"Stem spp."
Polypodiopsida
 Equisetales - Equisetidae
Calamites aliwalensis
Calamites aliwalensis Anderson and Anderson 1985