Botterkraal, Prince Albert (Permian of South Africa)

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
 Dicynodontia -
Eodicynodon oelofseni n. sp. Rubidge 1990 dicynodont
NMQR 2913
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