Ficksburg (Jurassic of South Africa)

Where: Free State, South Africa (28.9° S, 27.9° E: paleocoordinates 41.6° S, 2.8° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Clarens Formation (Stormberg Group), Pliensbachian (190.8 - 182.7 Ma)

• Bordy et al. 2020

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by de Villiers

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

Primary reference: R. Broom. 1913. The fossil fishes of the Upper Karroo Beds of South Africa. Annals of the South African Museum 7:251-269 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 220880: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 22.06.2021

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Taxonomic list

Actinopteri
 Semionotiformes - Semionotidae
Semionotus capensis Woodward 1888