Brak Leegte 297 (Permian of South Africa)

Where: Western Cape, South Africa (32.3° S, 22.1° E: paleocoordinates 59.6° S, 34.3° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Pristerognathus Assemblage zone, Poortjie Member (Teekloof Formation), Capitanian (264.3 - 259.5 Ma)

• approximately 6 m below the uppermost sandstone body of the Poortjie Member

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: fluvial; gray, blue siltstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: BP, Evolutionary Studies Institute (formerly the Bernard Price Institute for Palaeontological Research), University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg

Primary reference: C. F. Kammerer, R. M. H. Smith, M. O. Day and B. S. Rubidge. 2015. New information on the morphology and stratigraphic range of the mid‐Permian gorgonopsian Eriphostoma microdon Broom, 1911. Papers in Palaeontology [R. Butler/R. Butler]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 176245: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Richard Butler on 03.02.2016

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Taxonomic list

• BP/1/7275 also occurs in the uppermost Pristerognathus AZ in strata that yielded fossils of the dicynodonts Diictodon feliceps, Pristerodon mackayi and Endothiodon. Scylacosaurid and lycosuchid therocephalians – as well as a large gorgonopsian - were found within 30 m stratigraphically below the new specimen, and fragmentary pareiasaur remains were recovered from immediately above it.
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Reptilia
 Procolophonomorpha -
Pareiasauria indet.
Pareiasauria indet. Seeley 1888 parareptile
Osteichthyes
 Therapsida -
Eriphostoma microdon
Eriphostoma microdon Broom 1911 therapsid
BP/1/7275