Putfontein: Capitanian, South Africa
collected by Michael Day, Christen Shelton
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Tapinocephalidae
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Criocephalosaurus sp.
Kammerer and Sidor 2002
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1 individual | |||||||||
| BP/1/7214, partial skull | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | South Africa | State/province: | Western Cape | County: | Beaufort West |
| Coordinates: | 32.6° South, 22.4° East (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 60.0° South, 34.7° West | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | stated in text | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| Period: | Permian | Epoch: | Guadalupian |
| Stage: | Capitanian | 10 m.y. bin: | Permian 4 |
| Key time interval: | Capitanian | Other zone: | Tapinocephalus Assemblage |
| Age range of interval: | 264.28000 - 259.51000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | mudstone |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | field collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | biostratigraphic analysis |
| Museum repositories: | BPI |
| Collectors: | Michael Day, Christen Shelton |
Metadata
| Database number: | 171639 | ||
| Authorizer: | R. Butler | Enterer: | R. Butler |
| Modifier: | R. Butler | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2015-07-15 10:19:09 | Last modified: | 2016-02-07 13:57:38 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2015-07-15 10:19:09 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 55813. | M. O. Day, S. Güven, F. Abdala, S. Jirah, B. Rubidge and J. Almond. 2015. Youngest dinocephalian fossils extend the Tapinocephalus Zone, Karoo Basin, South Africa. South African Journal of Science 111:2014-0309 [R. Butler/R. Butler/R. Butler] |