Also known as Palinut Fontein, Palmiet Fontein

Where: Western Cape, South Africa (32.3° S, 21.8° E: paleocoordinates 59.4° S, 34.5° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Tapinocephalus or Pristerognathus Assemblage zone, Abrahamskraal Formation (Beaufort Group), Capitanian (264.3 - 259.5 Ma)

• "Lower Tapinocephalus zone" (Lee, 1997). Kitching (1977, "Distribution of the Karroo Vertebrate Fauna", p. 41), however, assigns this locality to the upper Tapinocephalus zone, which corresponds to the Pristerognathus Assemblage Zone of Rubidge et al. (1995, South African Committee for Stratigraphy, Biostratigraphic Series No. 1).

•Both Tapinocephalus and Pristerognathus AZs are Capitanian according to Catuneanu et al. (2005, J. Afr. Earth Sci. 43). Since the locality is west of 24°E it very likely is within the Abrahamskraal Fm. (see Catuneanu et al., 2005 figs. 24, 25).

Environment/lithology: "floodplain"; sandstone and red claystone

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the BMNH

Collection methods: surface (in situ)

Primary reference: M. S. Y. Lee. 1997. A taxonomic revision of pareiasaurian reptiles: implications for Permian terrestrial paleoecology. Modern Geology 21:231-298 [J. Mueller/T. Liebrecht/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 26710: authorized by Chris Sidor, entered by Chris Sidor on 25.10.2002, edited by Bethany Allen and Torsten Liebrecht

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