Tuinkraal (Permian of South Africa)

Also known as Thuynkraal, Thuynskraal

Where: Western Cape, South Africa (33.0° S, 21.7° E)

• Paleocoordinates: 55.0° S, 34.1° W (Wright 2013)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Eodicynodon Assemblage zone, Abrahamskraal Formation (Beaufort Group), Wordian (266.9 - 264.3 Ma)

• Rubidge et al. (1994) solely state that the locality is assigned to the "Eodicynodon-Tapinocaninus assemblage zone" (renamed Eodicynodon AZ by Rubidge et al., 1995 SACS Biostrat. Ser. 1). Beds belonging to this biozone are lithostratigraphically classified as the deepest part of the Abrahamskraal Fm. of the Beaufort Group and are regarded to be Wordian in age (see comments on stratigraphy in PBDB collection 94649, vertebrate locality Modderdrift, and references cited therein).

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; mudstone and sandstone

• Rubidge et al. (2000, S. Afr. J. Geol. 103(1)) interpret the basal Abrahamskraal Fm. as non-marine part of a second-order highstand systems tract.

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: NMQR = National Museum, Bloemfontein, South Africa

Primary reference: B. S. Rubidge, G. M. King, and J. P. Hancox. 1994. The Postcranial Skeleton of the Earliest Dicynodont Synapsid Eodicynodon from the Upper Permian of South Africa. Palaeontology 37(2):397-408 [J. Mueller/T. Liebrecht]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 94778: authorized by Johannes Mueller, entered by Torsten Liebrecht on 12.03.2010, edited by Bethany Allen

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Taxonomic list

• NMQR 2992 consists of postcranial remains "found associated with cranial material and we can therefore be confident of the generic identification"; furthermore, the authors (Rubidge et al., 1994) explicitly say that the remains represent the species E. oosthuizeni.
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Osteichthyes
 Dicynodontia -
Eodicynodon oosthuizeni
Eodicynodon oosthuizeni Barry 1974 dicynodont
NMQR 2992; see comments on taxonomic list
 Therapsida - Anteosauridae
Australosyodon nyaphuli n. sp.
Australosyodon nyaphuli n. sp. Rubidge 1994 therapsid
NMQR 3152 (holotype), skull and mandible