Leeu-Gamka (Permian of South Africa)

Also known as Fraserburg Road, Leeu Gamka Station

Where: Western Cape, South Africa (32.8° S, 22.0° E: paleocoordinates 59.7° S, 35.2° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Tapinocephalus Assemblage other zone, Capitanian (264.3 - 259.5 Ma)

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: AM: Albany Museum

Primary reference: R. Broom. 1911. On some New South African Permian Reptiles. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 81(4):1073-1082 [R. Butler/J. Benito Moreno]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 176244: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Richard Butler on 03.02.2016, edited by Bethany Allen

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Amphibia
 Temnospondyli - Rhinesuchidae
Rhinesuchus whaitsi n. gen. n. sp.3
Rhinesuchus whaitsi n. gen. n. sp.3 Broom 1908 tetrapod
SAM-PK-1212
Osteichthyes
 Therocephalia - Alopecodontidae
Pardosuchus whaitsi n. gen. n. sp.2
Pardosuchus whaitsi n. gen. n. sp.2 Broom 1908 therapsid
 Therapsida - Tapinocephalidae
Keratocephalus moloch1 von Huene 1931 therapsid
"partial skull"
 Dicynodontia - Pylaecephalidae
"Dicynodon jouberti" = Diictodon feliceps1
"Dicynodon jouberti" = Diictodon feliceps1 Owen 1876 dicynodont
SAM
 Therapsida -
Eriphostoma microdon n. gen. n. sp.
Eriphostoma microdon n. gen. n. sp. Broom 1911 therapsid
AMNH FARB 552