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
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 | |
Pachydectes elsi n. gen. n. sp.
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