Also known as Buffels Valley
Where: Western Cape, South Africa (32.7° S, 21.5° E: paleocoordinates 59.3° S, 35.4° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Tapinocephalus Assemblage Zone other zone, Beaufort Group, Capitanian (264.3 - 259.5 Ma)
• Radioisotopic data constrains the likely age of the Tapinocephalus Zone to Capitanian (Rubidge et al. 2013).
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; siliciclastic sediments
Size class: macrofossils
Reposited in the BPI
Primary reference: M. J. Toerien. 1953. The evolution of the palate in South African Anomodontia and its classificatory significance. Palaeontologia Africana 1:49-117 [J. Fröbisch/M. Walther]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 176355: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Richard Butler on 08.02.2016, edited by Juan Benito Moreno and Bethany Allen
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Moschops sp.3, Struthiocephalus whaitsi3, Struthiocephaloides sp.3, Keratocephalus sp.1, Keratocephalus moloch3
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"Anteosaurus magnificus" = Anteosaurus magnificus3, "Anteosaurus crassifrons" = Anteosaurus magnificus1
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Pristerognathus sp.1, Pristerognathoides sp.3, Maraisaurus parvus n. sp.1, Pristerognathoides parvus3, Ptomalestes avidus3, Scymnosaurus sp.3
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"Brachyuraniscus merwevillensis n. sp." = Pristerodon mackayi, "Dicynodon pseudojouberti" = Diictodon pseudojouberti3
"Brachyuraniscus merwevillensis n. sp." = Pristerodon mackayi Huxley 1868 dicynodont BP/1/346, skull (holotype)
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