Veldmansrivier (Permian of South Africa)

Also known as Veldmann Ween

Where: Western Cape, South Africa (33.2° S, 22.0° E: paleocoordinates 59.9° S, 36.0° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

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

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: SAM: South African Museum, Cape Town

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 176248: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Richard Butler on 04.02.2016, edited by Bethany Allen

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Procolophonomorpha -
"Brachypareia rogersi" = Pareiasaurus serridens2
"Brachypareia rogersi" = Pareiasaurus serridens2 Owen parareptile
"skull"
Osteichthyes
 Therapsida -
Eriphostoma microdon Broom 1911 therapsid
SAM-PK-11846, compressed snout and dentary. SAM-PK-11849, poorly preserved skull
 Therapsida - Titanosuchidae
"Parascapanodon sp." = Titanosuchus1, Titanosuchus ferox2
"Parascapanodon sp." = Titanosuchus1 Owen 1876 therapsid
"scapulo-coracoid"
Titanosuchus ferox2 Owen 1879 therapsid
 Therocephalia - Pristerognathidae
Pristerognathoides sp.2 Boonstra 1954 therapsid
 Dicynodontia -
"Dicynodon pseudojouberti" = Diictodon pseudojouberti2
"Dicynodon pseudojouberti" = Diictodon pseudojouberti2 Boonstra 1948 dicynodont