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
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
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Osteichthyes | |
Dinogorgon rubidgei n. gen. n. sp.5 Broom 1936 therapsid RC 1, compressed snout with anterior part of lower jaw
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"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
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Dicynodontia indet. dicynodont | |
"Dicynodon rubidgei" = Diictodon feliceps
"Dicynodon rubidgei" = Diictodon feliceps Owen 1876 dicynodont | |
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Palemydops rubidgeae n. sp.
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"Emydops cf. microdon" = Pristerodon mackayi4, "Dicynodon anneae n. sp." = Dinanomodon gilli2, "Dicynodon whitsonae n. sp." = Dinanomodon gilli4
"Emydops cf. microdon" = Pristerodon mackayi4 Huxley 1868 dicynodont RC 136, small skull with lower jaw and partial skeleton
"Dicynodon anneae n. sp." = Dinanomodon gilli2 Broom 1932 dicynodont RC 42 a dorsoventrally crushed skull with a poorly preserved ventral surface
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"Hipposaurus rubidgei n. sp." = Lycaenodon longiceps3
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Pelictosuchus paucidens n. gen. n. sp.4
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Ictidosuchoides rubidgei n. sp.4
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