Also known as Welgevonden
Where: Eastern Cape, South Africa (32.1° S, 24.5° E: paleocoordinates 62.6° S, 29.0° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Cistecephalus Assemblage Zone other zone, Beaufort Group, Wuchiapingian (259.9 - 254.2 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
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 174626: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Juan Benito Moreno on 19.11.2015
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
| Amphibia | |
"Rhinesuchus rubidgei n. sp." = Rhinesuchoides tenuiceps4
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| Osteichthyes | |
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Dicynodontia indet. dicynodont | |
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Cistecephalus microrhinus Owen 1876 dicynodont | |
"Dicynodon nanus n. sp." = Diictodon feliceps1
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"Platycyclops latirhinus n. sp." = Rhachiocephalus magnus, "Oudenodon bainii" = Oudenodon bainii, "Dicynodon richardi n. sp." = Oudenodon bainii2, "Dicynodon allani n. sp." = Oudenodon bainii, Aulacephalodon rubidgei n. sp.3
"Oudenodon bainii" = Oudenodon bainii Owen 1859 therapsid
"Dicynodon richardi n. sp." = Oudenodon bainii2 Owen 1859 therapsid RC 41 (TM 4041), a poorly prepared skull missing the right temporal arch
"Dicynodon allani n. sp." = Oudenodon bainii Owen 1859 therapsid RC 37, complete skull, lower jaws and anterior cervical vertebrae
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