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 | |
Homodontosaurus kitchingi Broom 1949 synapsid | |
Dicynodontia indet. dicynodont | |
"Moschorhynchus gracilis n. sp." = Theriognathus microps1
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Cyniscopoides broomi n. gen. n. sp.3 Brink and Kitching 1953 therapsid BP/1/251, partial skull and mandible
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