Also known as Farm Abrahamskraal
Where: Western Cape, South Africa (32.9° S, 22.0° E: paleocoordinates 59.8° S, 35.4° W)
• coordinate based on political unit
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Tapinocephalus Assemblage zone, Abrahamskraal Formation (Beaufort Group), Capitanian (264.3 - 259.5 Ma)
• "Tapinocephalus Assemblage Zone, Late Permian" (Dilkes & Reisz, 1996);
•The Tapinocephalus AZ is Capitanian in age according to Catuneanu et al. (2005, J. Afr. Earth Sci., 43). Lithostratigraphic informations are from Catuneanu et al. (2005) as well.
• member-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: "floodplain"; sandstone and claystone
Size class: macrofossils
Reposited in the TMP
• SAM = Iziko South African Museum, Cape Town
Primary reference: D. W. Dilkes and R. R. Reisz. 1996. First record of a basal synapsid (‘mammal-like reptile’) in Gondwana. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Series B 263:1165-1170 [J. Mueller/T. Liebrecht]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 86388: authorized by Johannes Mueller, entered by Torsten Liebrecht on 01.02.2009, edited by Richard Butler, Juan Benito Moreno and Bethany Allen
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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"Brachypareia watsoni n. sp." = Nochelesaurus alexanderi1, "Dolichopareia angusta" = Nochelesaurus alexanderi1, Bradysaurus angusta8, Bradysaurus strubeni8, "Bradysaurus vanderbyli n. sp." = Bradysaurus seeleyi6, Bradysaurus baini6
"Bradysaurus vanderbyli n. sp." = Bradysaurus seeleyi6 Haughton and Boonstra 1929 parareptile SAM 3718 (type)
Bradysaurus baini6 Seeley 1892 parareptile SAM 4347 (not mentioned by Lee, 1997) + one skull reposited in Tübingen, Germany (see v. Huene, 1931, Geol. Paläont. Abh. N.F. 18)
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Styracocephalus platyrhynchus9 Haughton 1929 reptile SAM 9346, posterior portion of skull roof and separate portion with heeled incisor teeth
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Elliotsmithia longiceps n. gen. n. sp.3
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Titanosuchus dubius n. sp.8, Titanosuchus strubeni8, "Titanosuchus ferox" = Titanosuchus ferox8, "Scapanodon duplessisi" = Titanosuchus ferox2, Jonkeria koupensis8, Jonkeria vanderbyli n. sp.8, Dinopolus atrox n. sp.8, "Jonkeria truculenta" = Jonkeria truculenta8, "Phoneosuchus angusticeps n. sp." = Jonkeria truculenta1, Titanosuchus cloetei8, Dinartamus vanderbyli n. gen. n. sp.8
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Struthiocephalus intermedius8, "Struthiocephalus whaitsi" = Struthiocephalus whaitsi8, "Struthiocephalellus parvus n. sp." = Struthiocephalus whaitsi1, Taurocephalus lerouxi n. sp.8, "Criocephalus vanderbyli n. sp." = Criocephalosaurus vanderbyli8, Keratocephalus moloch n. sp.8
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"Eoarctops vanderbyli n. gen. n. sp." = Eriphostoma microdon5, "Galesuchus gracilis n. gen. n. sp." = Eriphostoma microdon4
"Eoarctops vanderbyli n. gen. n. sp." = Eriphostoma microdon5 Broom 1911 therapsid SAM-PK-5598 (holotype)
"Galesuchus gracilis n. gen. n. sp." = Eriphostoma microdon4 Broom 1911 therapsid SAM-PK-2754 (holotype)
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Lycedops scholtzi n. sp.8, Pristerognathus vanderbyli n. sp.8, Scymnosaurus sp.8, Alopecognathus megalops n. sp.8
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"Dicynodon pseudojouberti" = Diictodon pseudojouberti8
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