Also known as Petersburg farm, Pietersburg
Where: Eastern Cape, South Africa (32.3° S, 25.0° E: paleocoordinates 63.1° S, 29.1° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Cistecephalus Assemblage Zone other zone, Beaufort Group, Wuchiapingian (259.9 - 254.2 Ma)
• Direct dates for the Cistecephalus Assemblage Zone from Rubidge et al., 2013
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by J. Van Heerden in 1974
Collection methods: mechanical
• NM: National Museum, Bloemfontein
Primary reference: J. W. Kitching. 1977. The distribution of the Karroo vertebrate fauna. Memoirs of the Bernard Price Institute for Palaeontological Research 1:1-131 [H. Sims/J. Camp]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 176310: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Richard Butler on 07.02.2016, edited by Juan Benito Moreno
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Osteichthyes | |
"Cyniscops cookei n. sp." = Arctognathus cookei2
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Dicynodon hartzenbergi n. sp.1
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"Aulacocephalodon hartzenbergi" = Aulacephalodon bainii
"Aulacocephalodon hartzenbergi" = Aulacephalodon bainii Owen 1845 therapsid | |
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