Dikbome, Laingsburg (Permian of South Africa)

Where: Western Cape, South Africa (33.2° S, 20.9° E)

• Paleocoordinates: 52.3° S, 29.5° W (Wright 2013)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Tapinocephalus other zone, Capitanian (264.3 - 259.5 Ma)

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by H. Zinn, Boonstra in 1941 - 1951

Primary reference: L. D. Boonstra. 1969. The fauna of the Tapinocephalus Zone (Beaufort Beds of the Karoo). Annals of the South African Museum 56(1):1-73 [A. Dunhill/B. Allen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 198723: authorized by Alex Dunhill, entered by Bethany Allen on 09.01.2019

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Taxonomic list

Osteichthyes
 Therapsida - Anteosauridae
"Anteosaurus laticeps n. sp." = Anteosaurus magnificus
"Anteosaurus laticeps n. sp." = Anteosaurus magnificus Watson 1921 therapsid
 Therapsida - Tapinocephalidae
Struthiocephalus whaitsi Haughton 1915 therapsid
 Dicynodontia -
Dicynodon sp., "Dicynodon pseudojouberti" = Diictodon pseudojouberti
Dicynodon sp. Owen 1845 dicynodont
"Dicynodon pseudojouberti" = Diictodon pseudojouberti Boonstra 1948 dicynodont
 Therocephalia - Pristerognathidae
Pristerognathidae indet. Broom 1908 therapsid
Reptilia
 Procolophonomorpha -
Bradysaurus sp. Watson 1914 parareptile