Where: Western Cape, South Africa (32.2° S, 22.4° E: paleocoordinates 61.0° S, 30.6° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Tropidostoma Assemblage Zone zone, Beaufort Group, Wuchiapingian (259.9 - 254.2 Ma)
• Direct date for the Tropidostoma Assemblage Zone from Rubidge et al., 2013
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Reposited in the BMNH
Primary reference: J. W. Kitching. 1977. The distribution of the Karroo vertebrate fauna. Memoirs of the Bernard Price Institute for Palaeontological Research 1:1-131 [H. Sims/J. Camp]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 174454: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Juan Benito Moreno on 13.11.2015, edited by Richard Butler
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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"Dicynodon microtrema n. sp." = Tropidostoma dubium2, "Dicynodon dunnii n. sp." = Tropidostoma dubium2
"Dicynodon dunnii n. sp." = Tropidostoma dubium2 Owen 1876 therapsid NHMUK R866, a laterally compresed occiput and associated cervical vertebrae
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Proburnetiinae indet.1 Kammerer 2016 therapsid NHMUK R871, a fragment of skull roof preserving the interorbital region and temporal roof to the anterior edge of the pineal foramen
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