Where: Free State, South Africa (29.7° S, 27.0° E: paleocoordinates 66.5° S, 10.3° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Cynognathus Assemblage Zone Subzone B other zone, Beaufort Group, Anisian (247.2 - 242.0 Ma)
• Collected from the Cynognathus Assemblage Zone, ?Subzone B; Subzone B is considered early Anisian in age.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; fine-grained sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by E. C. N. van Hoepen in 1927
• NM, National Museum Bloemfontein
Primary reference: R. J. Damiani and P. J. Hancox. 2003. New mastodonsaurid temnospondyls from the Cynognathus Assemblage Zone (Upper Beaufort Group; Karoo Basin) of South Africa. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 23(1):54-66 [R. Butler/R. Butler]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 96328: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Richard Butler on 01.06.2010
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Amphibia | |
Jammerbergia formops n. gen. n. sp.
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