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Alarmkraal, Pixley ka Seme District Municipality, Northern Cape, South Africa
Lat/Long (Decimal) | -31.135,22.3783 |
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Co-ordinates Derivation | stated in text |
Given Location | Northern Cape, South Africa |
Mindat.org Region (for given coordinates) | Pixley ka Seme District Municipality, Northern Cape, South Africa |
Collections
Collection | Reference | Stratigraphic Name | Comments | Lithology | Age |
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Alarmkraal | Rubidge B. S., Modesto S. P., et al (1999) | Beaufort - Abrahamskraal | " [...] lower Beaufort Group (Abrahamskraal Formation)" " [...] 27 m above the Ecca–Beaufort contact [...] " " [...] Tapinocephalus biozone [...] " " [...] lowermost part of the Beaufort Group is absent from this part of the basin." Tapinocephalus AZ is Capitanian according to Catuneanu et al. (2005, J. Afr. Earth Sci. 43) | siltstone | 265.1 - 259.9 Ma Permian |
Recorded Fossils
Accepted Name | Hierarchy | Age |
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Afrothyra unranked clade | Animalia : Chordata : Osteichthyes : Cotylosauria : Varanopidae : Afrothyra | 265.1 - 259.9 Ma Permian |
Eunotosaurus africanus species | Animalia : Chordata : Reptilia : Eunotosaurus : Eunotosaurus africanus | 265.1 - 259.9 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!