PBDB Collection

Wellwood (Cistecephalus Assemblage Zone) (Permian of South Africa)

Where: Eastern Cape, South Africa (32.0° S, 24.6° E: paleocoordinates 62.6° S, 28.7° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Cistecephalus Assemblage Zone zone, Balfour Formation (Beaufort Group), Wuchiapingian (259.9 - 254.2 Ma)

• Direct dates for Cistecephalus Assemblage Zone from Rubidge et al., 2013

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; green, calcareous mudstone

• "All the specimens are preserved in fine-grained green mudstone which may or may not form a nodule surrounding the specimen." (Gow, 1972).

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by S.H. Rubidge in 1938

• R.C. = "S. H. Rubidge collection housed on the farm Wellwood near Graff Reinet" (Gow, 1972)

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 174717: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Juan Benito Moreno on 25.11.2015, edited by Richard Butler and Bethany Allen

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Taxonomic list

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Osteichthyes
Therapsida - Gorgonopidae	Scylacops capensis⁵, Dinogorgon rubidgei n. gen. n. sp.⁵ Scylacops capensis⁵ Broom 1913 therapsid SAM-PK-3444, complete skull Dinogorgon rubidgei n. gen. n. sp.⁵ Broom 1936 therapsid RC 1, compressed snout with anterior part of lower jaw
Therocephalia - Akidnognathidae	Promoschorhynchus platyrhinus⁴ Promoschorhynchus platyrhinus⁴ Brink 1954 therapsid RC 116, small skull with lower jaw
Therocephalia - Ictidosuchidae	Ictidosuchoides rubidgei n. sp.⁴ Ictidosuchoides rubidgei n. sp.⁴ Broom 1936 therapsid RC 6, partial small skull
Therocephalia - Scaloposauridae	Pelictosuchus paucidens n. gen. n. sp.⁴ Pelictosuchus paucidens n. gen. n. sp.⁴ Broom 1940 therapsid RC 31, partial skull
Dicynodontia -	Dicynodontia indet. Dicynodontia indet. dicynodont
Dicynodontia - Pylaecephalidae	"Dicynodon rubidgei" = Diictodon feliceps "Dicynodon rubidgei" = Diictodon feliceps Owen 1876 dicynodont
Dicynodontia -	"Emydops cf. microdon" = Pristerodon mackayi⁴ "Emydops cf. microdon" = Pristerodon mackayi⁴ Huxley 1868 dicynodont RC 136, small skull with lower jaw and partial skeleton
Dicynodontia - Emydopidae	Palemydops rubidgeae n. sp. Palemydops rubidgeae n. sp. Broom 1937 dicynodont RC No. 8, a skull
Dicynodontia - Cistecephalidae	Cistecephalus microrhinus Cistecephalus microrhinus Owen 1876 dicynodont Four skulls
Dicynodontia -	"Dicynodon anneae n. sp." = Dinanomodon gilli², "Dicynodon whitsonae n. sp." = Dinanomodon gilli⁴ "Dicynodon anneae n. sp." = Dinanomodon gilli² Broom 1932 dicynodont RC 42 a dorsoventrally crushed skull with a poorly preserved ventral surface "Dicynodon whitsonae n. sp." = Dinanomodon gilli⁴ Broom 1932 dicynodont RC 42, small skull
Anomodontia - Cryptodontidae	"Dicynodon wellwoodensis n. sp." = Oudenodon bainii¹ "Dicynodon wellwoodensis n. sp." = Oudenodon bainii¹ Owen 1859 therapsid TM 262, a well preserved skull missing the lest temporal arch and the edge of the occiput
Therapsida -	"Hipposaurus rubidgei n. sp." = Lycaenodon longiceps³ "Hipposaurus rubidgei n. sp." = Lycaenodon longiceps³ Broom 1925 therapsid RC 20

¹Broom 1936; ²Broom 1940; ³Broom 1940; ⁴Haughton 1965; ⁵Sigogneau-Russell 1989