Riversdale, Graaff-Reinet (Permian of South Africa)

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
 Dicynodontia - Kingoriidae
"Dicynodon howardi n. sp." = Dicynodontoides recurvidens
"Dicynodon howardi n. sp." = Dicynodontoides recurvidens Owen 1876 dicynodont
RC 83, a complete skull
 Dicynodontia - Cistecephalidae
Cistecephalus microrhinus Owen 1876 dicynodont
 Therapsida - Gorgonopidae
"Smilesaurus maccabei n. sp." = Smilesaurus ferox
"Smilesaurus maccabei n. sp." = Smilesaurus ferox Broom 1948 therapsid
RC 81, skull