Petersburg (Permian of South Africa)

Also known as Petersburg farm, Pietersburg

Where: Eastern Cape, South Africa (32.3° S, 25.0° E: paleocoordinates 63.1° S, 29.1° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Cistecephalus Assemblage Zone other zone, Beaufort Group, Wuchiapingian (259.9 - 254.2 Ma)

• Direct dates for the Cistecephalus Assemblage Zone from Rubidge et al., 2013

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by J. Van Heerden in 1974

Collection methods: mechanical

• NM: National Museum, Bloemfontein

Primary reference: J. W. Kitching. 1977. The distribution of the Karroo vertebrate fauna. Memoirs of the Bernard Price Institute for Palaeontological Research 1:1-131 [H. Sims/J. Camp]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 176310: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Richard Butler on 07.02.2016, edited by Juan Benito Moreno

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Osteichthyes
 Therapsida -
Lemurosaurus pricei3 Broom 1949 therapsid
NMQR 1702
 Anomodontia - Cryptodontidae
"Aulacocephalodon hartzenbergi" = Aulacephalodon bainii
"Aulacocephalodon hartzenbergi" = Aulacephalodon bainii Owen 1845 therapsid
 Dicynodontia -
Dicynodon hartzenbergi n. sp.1 Broom 1940 dicynodont
TM 1480 a complete skull with lower jaws
 Therapsida - Gorgonopidae
"Cyniscops cookei n. sp." = Arctognathus cookei2
"Cyniscops cookei n. sp." = Arctognathus cookei2 Broom 1948 therapsid
BP/1/648, partial skull