Also known as Houd Constant, Katbos, Houdconstant
Where: Eastern Cape, South Africa (32.0° S, 24.2° E: paleocoordinates 62.4° S, 29.1° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Cistecephalus Assemblage Zone zone, Balfour Formation (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; green, calcareous mudstone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by J. Kitching in 1945; reposited in the BPI
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 176339: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Juan Benito Moreno on 08.02.2016
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Osteichthyes | |
Gorgonopsia indet. Seeley 1894 therapsid | |
Arctognathus whaitsi n. sp.
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Therocephalia indet. therapsid | |
Dicynodontia indet. dicynodont | |
"Dicynodon ictidops" = Diictodon feliceps, "Dicynodon nanus" = Diictodon feliceps
"Dicynodon ictidops" = Diictodon feliceps Owen 1876 dicynodont
"Dicynodon nanus" = Diictodon feliceps Owen 1876 dicynodont | |
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Oudenodon bainii Owen 1859 therapsid
Aulacephalodon bainii Owen 1845 therapsid |