Also known as Gouph Koup
Where: Western Cape, South Africa (32.4° S, 22.6° E: paleocoordinates 60.1° S, 35.7° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
When: Abrahamskraal Formation (Beaufort Group), Guadalupian (273.0 - 259.5 Ma)
• This is a vague locality covering both the Tapinocephalus and the Pristerognathus Assemblage Zones, making the precise stratigraphic origin of the different remains difficult to assesss (Kammerer et al, 2011)
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
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 177007: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Juan Benito Moreno on 15.03.2016, edited by Richard Butler
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Osteichthyes | |
"Opisthoctenodon brachyops n. sp." = Emydops arctatus, "Dicynodon pseudojouberti" = Diictodon pseudojouberti
"Opisthoctenodon brachyops n. sp." = Emydops arctatus Owen 1876 dicynodont SAM 708, a weathered skull
"Dicynodon pseudojouberti" = Diictodon pseudojouberti Boonstra 1948 dicynodont | |
"Dicynodon jouberti n. sp." = Diictodon feliceps1
"Dicynodon jouberti n. sp." = Diictodon feliceps1 Owen 1876 dicynodont SAM-PK-695, a complete, but poorly preserved skull and lower jaws
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Mormosaurus seeleyi Watson 1914 therapsid | |
Titanosuchus ferox Owen 1879 therapsid | |
"Aelurosaurus felinus n. gen. n. sp." = Aelurosaurus felinus3, "Aelurosauroides watsoni n. gen. n. sp." = Aelurosaurus felinus3, Aelurosaurus whaitsi3
"Aelurosauroides watsoni n. gen. n. sp." = Aelurosaurus felinus3 Owen 1881 therapsid BMNH R 855, snout
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Cerdodon tenuidens Broom 1915 therapsid | |
Hyorhynchus platyceps n. gen. n. sp.2
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