Where: Western Cape, South Africa (31.9° S, 21.5° E: paleocoordinates 60.2° S, 30.7° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Tropidostoma zone, Hoedemaker Member (Teekloof Formation), Wuchiapingian (259.9 - 254.2 Ma)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: "floodplain"; gray siltstone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by RMS Smith
• SAM: Iziko South African Museum
Primary reference: C. F. Kammerer and R. M. H. Smith. 2017. An early geikiid dicynodont from the Tropidostoma Assemblage Zone (late Permian) of South Africa. PeerJ 5(e2913) [R. Butler/J. Benito Moreno]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 185746: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Richard Butler on 11.05.2017
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Osteichthyes | |
Bulbasaurus phylloxyron n. gen. n. sp.
Bulbasaurus phylloxyron n. gen. n. sp. Kammerer and Smith 2017 therapsid SAM-PK-K11235, a partial skull missing the left subtemporal bar and both postorbital bars
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