Oudeberg (Pass and Plateau) - Dicynodon Assemblage Zone (Permian to of South Africa)

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

Osteichthyes
 Therapsida - Gorgonopidae
Cyonosaurus cf. kitchingi, "Dinogorgon oudebergensis n. sp." = Dinogorgon rubidgei
Cyonosaurus cf. kitchingi Broom 1948 therapsid
"Dinogorgon oudebergensis n. sp." = Dinogorgon rubidgei Broom 1936 therapsid
RC 103, complete but compressed skull
 Dicynodontia -
 Dicynodontia - Pylaecephalidae
"Dicynodon nanus" = Diictodon feliceps, "Dicynodon ictidops" = Diictodon feliceps
"Dicynodon nanus" = Diictodon feliceps Owen 1876 dicynodont
"Dicynodon ictidops" = Diictodon feliceps Owen 1876 dicynodont
 Anomodontia - Cryptodontidae
"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
 Therocephalia - Whaitsiidae
"Whaitsia platyceps" = Theriognathus microps
"Whaitsia platyceps" = Theriognathus microps Owen 1876 therapsid
 Therapsida - Procynosuchidae
Procynosuchus delaharpeae Broom 1937 cynodont
Reptilia
 Parareptilia - Owenettidae
Owenetta rubidgei Broom 1939 parareptile