ammonites
Farm Vaalbank (Triassic to of South Africa)

Where: Eastern Cape, South Africa (31.0° S, 26.3° E: paleocoordinates 66.5° S, 15.9° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Cynognathus other zone, Burgersdorp Formation (Beaufort Group), Olenekian to Olenekian (251.3 - 242.0 Ma)

• Only stratigraphic information provided was "middle Cynognathus zone". The Cynognathus zone spans the Olenekian-Anisian.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: SAM: South African Museum, Cape Town

Primary reference: A. S. Brink. 1963. On Bauria cynops Broom. Palaeontologia africana 8:39-56 [R. Butler/R. Butler] more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 101955: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Richard Butler on 05.01.2011