Roadside locality (Permian of South Africa)

Also known as Wilgerbosch

Where: Eastern Cape, South Africa (31.8° S, 24.6° E: paleocoordinates 64.1° S, 25.4° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

When: Dicynodon zone, Beaufort Group, Changhsingian (254.2 - 252.2 Ma)

• "Lower Beaufort Group" - Teekloof/Balfour fm.?

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithified, green, blue, silty mudstone and lithified, graded siliciclastic

• bluegreen to green, ripple cross-laminated, silty mudstone with a mudstone veneer on the upper surface; and also from an interbedded mudstone/siltstone/fine-grained sandstone sequence

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 231863: authorized by Emma Dunne, entered by Sophie Fasey on 22.09.2023

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Taxonomic list

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Actinopteri
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Kompasia delaharpei n. gen. n. sp.1, Bethesdaichthys kitchingi n. gen. n. sp., Blourugia seeleyi2
Kompasia delaharpei n. gen. n. sp.1 Bender 2002
BP/114373/1, (syntype) in theBernard Price institute for Palaeontological Research (BPI Palaeontology), University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg; BP/1/2042; BP/114373/1, la, 47, 130, 136, K1
Bethesdaichthys kitchingi n. gen. n. sp. Bender 2001
BP/1/4373/3 (holotype) in the Bernard Price Institute for Palaeontoogical Research, Uni. Of Witwatersrand,BP/lI4373/2, 3, 19, 110, 119, 120, 121, 122, 123, 124, 134, 138; BP/1/116, housed at the BPI Palaeontology, Johannesburg. PB/95/6; PB/96/15, housed at the Council For Geoscience, Pretoria
Blourugia seeleyi2 Woodward 1893
BPI/1/4373/27, 28a, 29, 30, 31, 34, 35, 36, and PB/95/5
1Bender 2002; 2Bender 2006