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Amandelboom farm, Namakwa District Municipality, Northern Cape, South Africa
Lat/Long (Decimal) | -32.0767,22.0872 |
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Co-ordinates Derivation | stated in text |
Given Location | Northern Cape, South Africa |
Mindat.org Region (for given coordinates) | Namakwa District Municipality, Northern Cape, South Africa |
Collections
Collection | Reference | Stratigraphic Name | Comments | Lithology | Age |
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Amandelboom farm | Day M. O., Smith R. M. H., et al (2018) | Teekloof - Hoedemaker | The specimen was ex situ on the lower part of a slope that exposes silt- and mudstone of the lower Hoedemaker Member, Teekloof Formation.These strata host a tetrapod fossil assemblage attributable to the lower Tropidostoma AZ. The lower boundary of this biozone is estimated to be approximately 258.8 Ma,early Wuchiapingian, late Permian (Rubidge et al. 2013;Day et al. 2015). | siltstone | 259.9 - 254.17 Ma Permian |
Recorded Fossils
Accepted Name | Hierarchy | Age |
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Leucocephalus wewersi species | Animalia : Chordata : Osteichthyes : Cotylosauria : Burnetiidae : Leucocephalus : Leucocephalus wewersi | 259.9 - 254.17 Ma Permian |
References
Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!