Stoffelton (Permian to of South Africa)

Where: KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa (29.6° S, 29.7° E: paleocoordinates 65.9° S, 18.5° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Dicynodon Assemblage other zone, Beaufort Group, Wuchiapingian to Wuchiapingian (259.9 - 252.2 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the BPI

Primary reference: M.W. Maisch. 2002. A new basal lystrosaurid dicynodont from the Upper Permian of South Africa. Palaeontology 45(2):343-359 [H. Sims/J. Camp]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 176319: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Richard Butler on 08.02.2016, edited by Emma Dunne

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Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Dicynodontia -
Daptocephalus leoniceps2 Owen dicynodont
 Dicynodontia - Lystrosauridae
Kwazulusaurus shakai n. gen. n. sp.
Kwazulusaurus shakai n. gen. n. sp. Maisch 2002 dicynodont
BP/1/2792
 Dicynodontia - Kingoriidae
Thliptosaurus imperforatus n. gen. n. sp.1 Kammerer 2019 dicynodont
BP/1/2796, a nearly complete but badly compressed skull and lower jaws
Osteichthyes
 Therocephalia - Akidnognathidae
Moschorhinus kitchingi2 Broom 1920 therapsid
BP/1/2788, skull with lower jaw