Also known as Bushmans Rivier

Where: Western Cape, South Africa (32.5° S, 22.3° E: paleocoordinates 59.9° S, 34.5° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• hand sample-level geographic resolution

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

• " [...] Middle Permian Tapinocephalus Zone of the Beaufort Series of South Africa." (Cox, 1969). Kitching (1977, "Distribution of the Karroo Vertebrate Fauna") assigns this locality to the middle Tapinocephalus Zone. This corresponds to the transition of the Tapinocephalus and Pristerognathus Assemblage Zones of Rubidge et al. (1995, South African Committee for Stratigraphy, Biostratigraphic Series No. 1).

•The geographic and biostratigraphic position of the locality suggests that the site is in the Abrahamskraal Formation, which is of Capitanian age (see Catuneanu et al., 2005, J. Afr. Earth Sci. 43 figs. 24, 25).

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: dry floodplain; hematitic, gray, green, silty mudstone

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the BMNH

• SAM = South African Museum, Cape Town

Primary reference: C. B. Cox. 1969. The Problematic Permian Reptile Eunotosaurus. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History), Geology Series 18(5):167-196 [J. Mueller/T. Liebrecht]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 92646: authorized by Johannes Mueller, entered by Torsten Liebrecht on 23.11.2009, edited by Bethany Allen

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