Waterval (Dicynodon Assemblage Zone) (Permian to of South Africa)

Also known as Watersval Valley, Watervlei, Watervaal

Where: Eastern Cape, South Africa (31.1° S, 27.1° E: paleocoordinates 64.6° S, 24.2° 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 maximum date for Dicynodon Assemblage Zone from radioisotopic data in Rubidge et al. (2013, Geology)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; siliciclastic sediments

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the BPI

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 174735: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Juan Benito Moreno on 26.11.2015, edited by Richard Butler

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Osteichthyes
 Synapsida - Homodontosauridae
Homodontosaurus kitchingi Broom 1949 synapsid
 Dicynodontia -
 Therocephalia - Whaitsiidae
"Moschorhynchus gracilis n. sp." = Theriognathus microps1
"Moschorhynchus gracilis n. sp." = Theriognathus microps1 Owen 1876 therapsid
BP/1/148, small skull
 Therapsida - Gorgonopidae
Clelandina rubidgei2 Broom 1948 therapsid
UCMP 35437, complete skull
Cyniscopoides broomi n. gen. n. sp.3 Brink and Kitching 1953 therapsid
BP/1/251, partial skull and mandible