Klipfontein (Dicynodon Assemblage Zone) (Permian to of South Africa)

Also known as Klippefontein

Where: Eastern Cape, South Africa (32.0° S, 24.8° E: paleocoordinates 63.3° S, 27.9° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Dicynodon Assemblage Zone zone, Beaufort Group, Wuchiapingian to Wuchiapingian (259.9 - 252.2 Ma)

• Direct maximun date for the Dicynodon Assemblage Zone from Rubidge et al., 2013

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: R. Broom. 1940. On some new genera and species of fossil reptiles from the Karroo Beds of Graaff-Reinet. Annals of the Transvaal Museum 20:157-192 [H. Sims/J. Camp/R. Butler]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 176330: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Juan Benito Moreno on 08.02.2016, edited by Sophie Fasey and Joseph Flannery-Sutherland

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Taxonomic list

Actinopteri
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Blourugia seeleyi n. gen. n. sp.1
Blourugia seeleyi n. gen. n. sp.1 Woodward 1893
NHM P.8613 (holotype)
Osteichthyes
 Palaeonisciformes - Atherstoniidae
Atherstonia minor3 Woodward 1893
 Dicynodontia -
Dicynodontia indet.2 dicynodont
Unidentified specimens include small to large Dicynodontia
 Anomodontia - Cryptodontidae
"Dicynodon sidneyi" = Pelanomodon moschops2
"Dicynodon sidneyi" = Pelanomodon moschops2 Broom 1913 therapsid
 Therocephalia - Whaitsiidae
"Whaitsia platyceps" = Theriognathus microps2
"Whaitsia platyceps" = Theriognathus microps2 Owen 1876 therapsid
 Therapsida - Procynosuchidae
"Nanictosuchus melinodon n. gen. n. sp." = Procynosuchus delaharpeae2
"Nanictosuchus melinodon n. gen. n. sp." = Procynosuchus delaharpeae2 Broom 1937 cynodont
Skull