Where: Free State, South Africa (29.0° S, 26.0° E: paleocoordinates 61.8° S, 27.2° W)
When: Koonap Formation (Beaufort Group), Guadalupian (273.0 - 259.5 Ma)
Environment/lithology: deltaic; sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: mechanical, acetic
Primary reference: J. Benoit, P. R. Manger, V. Fernandez and B. S. Rubidge. 2016. Cranial Bosses of Choerosaurus dejageri (Therapsida, Therocephalia): Earliest Evidence of Cranial Display Structures in Eutheriodonts . PLoS 11(8):e0161457 [M. Uhen/B. Shipps/M. Uhen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 188669: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Brenlee Shipps on 11.09.2017
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Osteichthyes | |
Choerosaurus dejageri Haughton 1929 therapsid |