Farm Leeuvlei, Graaff-Reinet (Permian of South Africa)

Where: Eastern Cape, South Africa (32.3° S, 24.5° E: paleocoordinates 63.1° S, 28.6° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Lopingian (259.9 - 252.2 Ma)

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: L. D. Boonstra. 1953. LIII—A new Scaloposaurian genus. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 6:601-605 [A. Dunhill/B. Allen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 196741: authorized by Alex Dunhill, entered by Bethany Allen on 03.10.2018

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Taxonomic list

Osteichthyes
 Therocephalia - Scaloposauridae
Scaloporhinus angulorugatus n. gen. n. sp. Boonstra 1953 therapsid
SAM 4331, compressed skull