The Kloof (Permian of South Africa)

Also known as Teekloof

Where: Western Cape, South Africa (32.2° S, 21.6° E: paleocoordinates 60.4° S, 31.2° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

When: Tropidostoma Assemblage Zone other zone, Teekloof Formation (Beaufort Group), Wuchiapingian (259.9 - 254.2 Ma)

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

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; sandstone and claystone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: R. Broom and S. H. Haughton. 1917. Some new species of Anomodontia (Reptilia). Annals of the South African Museum 12:119-125 [J. Fröbisch/M. Walther]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 174392: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Juan Benito Moreno on 11.11.2015

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Taxonomic list

Osteichthyes
 Anomodontia - Cryptodontidae
"Dicynodon rogersi n. sp." = Tropidostoma dubium
"Dicynodon rogersi n. sp." = Tropidostoma dubium Owen 1876 therapsid
SAM-PK-2356, a partial skull missing most of its left side