Where: Eastern Cape, South Africa (33.1° S, 21.8° E: paleocoordinates 59.9° S, 38.9° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Abrahamskraal Formation (Beaufort Group), Guadalupian (273.0 - 259.5 Ma)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrialconcretionary, calcareous
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: concretion
Collected by J. Nyaphuli in 1982
Collection methods: surface (in situ), mechanical, acetic,
Primary reference: B. S. Rubidge. 1990. The cranial morphology of a new species of the genus Eodicynodon (Therapsida, Dicynodontia). Navorsinge van die Nasionale Museum Bloemfontein 7(2):29-42 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 75452: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 09.10.2007, edited by Torsten Liebrecht
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Osteichthyes | |
Eodicynodon oosthuizeni Barry 1974 dicynodont NMQR 3151, 3156; all are postcranial remains "found associated with cranial material and we can therefore be confident of the generic identification"; furthermore, the authors explicitly say that the remains represent the species E. oosthuizeni
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