Also known as Gamoep

Where: Northern Cape, South Africa (30.4° S, 18.4° E: paleocoordinates 41.5° S, 5.1° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Maastrichtian to Maastrichtian (72.1 - 59.2 Ma)

• "Late Cretaceous" according to Trueb et al., from "the end of the Cretaceous or perhaps early Tertiary" by Estes 1975 based on indirect evidence, and "60-70 Myr" based on 238Ub/206Pb dates for nearby volcanic pipes according to Geertsema and van den Heever 2000

Environment/lithology: crater lake; lithified, carbonaceous mudstone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: adpression

Collected by E. Reuning, L. D. Boonstra

• from a "shaft" sunk by Reuning and "dump material" from the shaft picked over by Boonstra

Primary reference: L. Trueb, C. F. Ross, and R. M. H. Smith. 2005. A new pipoid anuran from the Late Cretaceous of South Africa. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 25(3):533-547 [M. Carrano/K. Maguire/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 92114: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 01.11.2009

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