Also known as For Beaufort basin
Where: Eastern Cape, South Africa (32.8° S, 26.6° E: paleocoordinates 65.0° S, 28.1° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
When: Cistecephalus and Dicynodon Assemblage Zones zone, Wuchiapingian to Wuchiapingian (259.9 - 252.2 Ma)
• Kitching 1977 list this locality on the Cistecephalus Assemblage Zone, but specifies that it is stratigraphically uncertain, and there are outcrops pertaining to Dicynodon AZ as well.
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•Direct dates for Cistecephalus Assemblage Zone from Rubidge et al., 2013
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; ferruginous, blue lime mudstone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by A. G. Bain
Primary reference: R. Owen. 1859. Palaeontology. The Encyclopaedia Brittanica, or Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General Literature (8th Edition) 17:91-176 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 174747: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Juan Benito Moreno on 26.11.2015
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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"Dicynodon feliceps n. sp." = Diictodon feliceps3
"Dicynodon feliceps n. sp." = Diictodon feliceps3 Owen 1876 dicynodont NHMUK 47052, a nearly complete skull and lower jaws
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Dicynodon rectidens n. sp.3
Dicynodon rectidens n. sp.3 Owen 1876 dicynodont NHMUK 47057, a poorly preserved snout and lower jaws
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"Dicynodon recurvidens n. sp." = Dicynodontoides recurvidens3
"Dicynodon recurvidens n. sp." = Dicynodontoides recurvidens3 Owen 1876 dicynodont BMNH 47091, a complete skull with lower jaws
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"Dicynodon pardiceps n. sp." = Dicynodon lacerticeps3 Owen 1845 dicynodont NHMUK 47045, a poorly preserved, crushed partial skull
Dicynodon testudiceps n. sp.2 Owen 1845 dicynodont NHMUK 47054, a dorsoventrally crushed anterior half of skull
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Oudenodon bainii n. sp., "Dicynodon bainii n. sp." = Aulacephalodon bainii2, "Dicynodon tigriceps n. sp." = Aulacephalodon bainii1
"Dicynodon bainii n. sp." = Aulacephalodon bainii2 Owen 1845 therapsid NHMUK 36228, a complete but poorly prserved crushed skull
"Dicynodon tigriceps n. sp." = Aulacephalodon bainii1 Owen 1845 therapsid NHMUK 36235, a well-preserved complete skull and associated skeleton
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