Where: Eastern Cape, South Africa (32.3° S, 24.5° E: paleocoordinates 62.8° S, 29.3° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-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
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; siliciclastic sediments
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: RC: Rubidge Collection, Wellwood
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 176919: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Juan Benito Moreno on 08.03.2016, edited by Richard Butler
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Osteichthyes | |
"Smilesaurus maccabei n. sp." = Smilesaurus ferox
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"Dicynodon howardi n. sp." = Dicynodontoides recurvidens
"Dicynodon howardi n. sp." = Dicynodontoides recurvidens Owen 1876 dicynodont RC 83, a complete skull
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Cistecephalus microrhinus Owen 1876 dicynodont |