Where: Northern Cape, South Africa (32.0° S, 21.7° E)
• Paleocoordinates: 50.0° S, 21.0° W (Wright 2013)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Daptocephalus other zone, Steenkampsvlakte Member (Teekloof Formation), Wuchiapingian (259.9 - 254.2 Ma)
• Basal part of the Daptocephalus Assemblage Zone; was just Steenkamp for member.
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by SAM field teams 1996-2015
• SAM: Iziko South African Museum, Cape Town
Primary reference: A. K. Huttenlocker and R. M. H. Smith. 2017. New whaitsioids (Therapsida: Therocephalia) from the Teekloof Formation of South Africa and therocephalian diversity during the end Guadalupian extinction. PeerJ 5:e3868 [R. Butler/R. Butler]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 190565: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Richard Butler on 12.12.2017
Creative Commons license: CC0 (CC0)
Taxonomic list
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