farm Môrester, Jansenville (Permian of South Africa)

Where: Eastern Cape, South Africa (33.0° S, 24.6° E: paleocoordinates 61.8° S, 34.3° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: fluvial; concretionary, calcareous sandstone and mudstone

• "sandstones and mudrocks"

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: concretion

Collected by I. Els in 1997; reposited in the BPI

Collection methods: salvage, mechanical, acetic,

• discovered during road construction

Primary reference: B. S. Rubidge, C. A. Sidor, and S. P. Modesto. 2006. A new burnetiamorph (Therapsida: Biarmosuchia) from the Middle Permian of South Africa. Journal of Paleontology 80(4):740-749 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 75450: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 09.10.2007

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Osteichthyes
 Therapsida - Burnetiidae
Pachydectes elsi n. gen. n. sp.
Pachydectes elsi n. gen. n. sp. Rubidge et al. 2006 therapsid
BPI/1/5735