Where: Western Cape, South Africa (33.2° S, 22.1° E: paleocoordinates 59.9° S, 36.0° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Tapinocephalus Assemblage Zone other zone, Beaufort Group, Capitanian (264.3 - 259.5 Ma)
• The minimum date included here is a direct radioisotopic date for the overlying Pristerognathus Assemblage Zone from 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: M. J. Toerien. 1953. The evolution of the palate in South African Anomodontia and its classificatory significance. Palaeontologia Africana 1:49-117 [J. Fröbisch/M. Walther]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 174746: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Juan Benito Moreno on 26.11.2015
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
| Osteichthyes | |
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Pristerognathoides sp. Boonstra 1954 therapsid | |
"Dicynodon vanderhorsti n. sp." = Diictodon feliceps, "Dicynodon antjiesfonteinensis n. sp." = Diictodon feliceps, "Broilius antjiesfonteinensis n. gen. n. sp." = Robertia antjiesfonteinensis, "Dicynodon schroederi" = Robertia broomiana
"Dicynodon vanderhorsti n. sp." = Diictodon feliceps Owen 1876 dicynodont BP/1/175, a complete skull
"Dicynodon antjiesfonteinensis n. sp." = Diictodon feliceps Owen 1876 dicynodont BP/1/277, a very poorly preserved skull and lower jaws
"Broilius antjiesfonteinensis n. gen. n. sp." = Robertia antjiesfonteinensis Toerien 1953 dicynodont BP/1/289, skull
"Dicynodon schroederi" = Robertia broomiana Boonstra 1948 dicynodont | |