Where: Northern Cape, South Africa (31.5° S, 19.8° E: paleocoordinates 57.5° S, 34.0° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Diictodon-Styracocephalus Subzone other zone, Abrahamskraal Formation (Beaufort Group), Capitanian (264.3 - 259.5 Ma)
• Diictodon-Styracocephalus Subzone considered as Capitanian by Day & Rubidge (2020).
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by John Nyaphuli & Bruce S. Rubidge
• Repositories: South African Museum, Capetown, South Africa (SAM).
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: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 230333: authorized by Jocelyn Falconnet, entered by Jocelyn Falconnet on 10.06.2023
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
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