Also known as Ouberg
Where: Eastern Cape, South Africa (32.1° S, 24.4° E: paleocoordinates 63.0° S, 28.4° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Dicynodon Assemblage Zone zone, Beaufort Group, Wuchiapingian to Wuchiapingian (259.9 - 252.2 Ma)
• Direct dates for Dicynodon Assemblage Zone from Rubidge et al., 2013
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: WEL, Welwood Museum, Graaff-Reinet
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 174663: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Juan Benito Moreno on 23.11.2015
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Reptilia | |
Owenetta rubidgei Broom 1939 parareptile | |
Osteichthyes | |
"Whaitsia platyceps" = Theriognathus microps
"Whaitsia platyceps" = Theriognathus microps Owen 1876 therapsid | |
Dicynodontia indet. dicynodont | |
"Dicynodon nanus" = Diictodon feliceps, "Dicynodon ictidops" = Diictodon feliceps
"Dicynodon nanus" = Diictodon feliceps Owen 1876 dicynodont
"Dicynodon ictidops" = Diictodon feliceps Owen 1876 dicynodont | |
"Dicynodon moschops n. sp." = Pelanomodon moschops
"Dicynodon moschops n. sp." = Pelanomodon moschops Broom 1913 therapsid AMNH FARB 5325, a well preserved skull missing the left squamosal
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"Dinogorgon oudebergensis n. sp." = Dinogorgon rubidgei, Cyonosaurus cf. kitchingi
"Dinogorgon oudebergensis n. sp." = Dinogorgon rubidgei Broom 1936 therapsid RC 103, complete but compressed skull
Cyonosaurus cf. kitchingi Broom 1948 therapsid | |
Procynosuchus delaharpeae Broom 1937 cynodont |