Also known as type locality of "Pareisaurus bombidens"

Where: Western Cape, South Africa (32.9° S, 22.1° E: paleocoordinates 59.8° S, 35.3° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

• "Kitching (1977) assigns Vers Fontein to the middle Tapinocephalus zone and Jan Willem Fontein to the low Tapinocephalus zone." (Lee, 1997). This corresponds to the Tapinocephalus Assemblage Zone and the transition 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).

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: "floodplain"; sandstone and claystone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by W. G. Atherstone; reposited in the BMNH

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 93086: authorized by Johannes Mueller, entered by Torsten Liebrecht on 31.12.2009, edited by Bethany Allen

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