Also known as Victoria West
Where: Northern Cape, South Africa (31.3° S, 23.0° E: paleocoordinates 62.6° S, 25.8° W)
When: Tapinocephalus other zone, Abrahamskraal Formation (Beaufort Group), Changhsingian (254.2 - 252.2 Ma)
• Adelaide subgroup
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; fine-grained, medium sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: P. Bender. 2001. A new actinopterygian fish species from the Late Permian Beaufort Group, South Africa. Palaeontologia africana 37:25-40 [E. Dunne/S. Fasey]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 231862: authorized by Emma Dunne, entered by Sophie Fasey on 22.09.2023, edited by Joseph Flannery-Sutherland
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Blourugia seeleyi2 Woodward 1893 V63, V64, AK/76/2–8 , PB/96/1–4, 6, 8, 9, 10, 11, 13a (incl. paratypes AK/76/7 and PB/96/5)
Westlepis kempeni1 Bender 2004 AK/76/1/1a (holotype). The original publication could not be accessed, but all the Beaufort fish material described by Bender were from 3 sites. Westlepis in the paper abstract is restricted to the Taphinocephalus AZ and Blourug farm is the only TAZ site of the three. AK/76/1 from the site was given as a paratype of Blourugia seeleyi in an later publication, so the specimen number likely matches to this site
Bethesdaichthys kitchingi Bender 2001 V101, housed at the Victoria West Museum, Victoria West, three specimens
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