Also known as Klippefontein
Where: Eastern Cape, South Africa (32.0° S, 24.8° E: paleocoordinates 62.9° S, 28.6° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Cistecephalus Assemblage Zone zone, Beaufort Group, Wuchiapingian (259.9 - 254.2 Ma)
• Direct dates for the Cistecephalus Assemblage Zone from Rubidge et al., 2013
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: R. Broom. 1940. On some new genera and species of fossil reptiles from the Karroo Beds of Graaff-Reinet. Annals of the Transvaal Museum 20:157-192 [H. Sims/J. Camp/R. Butler]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 176331: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Juan Benito Moreno on 08.02.2016
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Dicynodontia indet.2, "Dicynodon calverleyi n. sp." = Basilodon woodwardi, "Dicynodon trigonocephalus n. sp." = Dicynodon lacerticeps, "Keirognathus cordylus n. sp." = Dicynodon cordylus1
"Dicynodon calverleyi n. sp." = Basilodon woodwardi Broom 1913 dicynodont RC 39, a slightly dorsoventrally crushed skull
"Dicynodon trigonocephalus n. sp." = Dicynodon lacerticeps Owen 1845 dicynodont RC 38, a nearly complete, anteroposteriorly crushed skull
"Keirognathus cordylus n. sp." = Dicynodon cordylus1 Seeley 1888 dicynodont NHMUK 49413, now considered Dicynodontia indet.
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"Dicynodon swierstrai n. sp." = Pristerodon mackayi
"Dicynodon swierstrai n. sp." = Pristerodon mackayi Huxley 1868 dicynodont RC 43, a small skull and lower jaws, now lost
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