Where: Western Cape, South Africa (32.4° S, 22.6° E: paleocoordinates 60.0° S, 32.6° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
When: Poortjie Member (Teekloof Formation), Capitanian to Capitanian (264.3 - 254.2 Ma)
• Beaufort West Commonage was listed as Cistecephalus Assemblage Zone in Kitching, 1977 (and was referred previously as Endothiodon Assemblage Zone) before the definition of the Tropidostoma Assemblage Zone (see Rubidge & Keyser, 1995). Posterior works, as Kammerer et al., 2011, identify fossils from this locality as pertaining to the both the Tropidostoma and the Cistecephalus Assemblage Zones.
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•Direct dates for the Tropidostoma and Cistecephalus Assemblage Zones from Rubidge et al., 2013
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by John Almond, Madelon Tusenius
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: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 176922: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Juan Benito Moreno on 08.03.2016
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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"Aelurosaurus whaitsi n. sp." = Aelurosaurus whaitsi4, "Aelurosaurus breviceps n. sp." = Aelurosaurus whaitsi4, Gorgonops torvus4, "Scymnognathus whaitsi n. gen. n. sp." = Gorgonops whaitsi4
"Aelurosaurus whaitsi n. sp." = Aelurosaurus whaitsi4 Broom 1911 therapsid AMNH 5528, fragment of snout
"Aelurosaurus breviceps n. sp." = Aelurosaurus whaitsi4 Broom 1911 therapsid AMNH 5514, snout and dentary
Gorgonops torvus4 Owen 1876 therapsid AMNH 5515, well preserved but flattened skull (type). AMNH 5531, 5544, 5546, 5568
"Scymnognathus whaitsi n. gen. n. sp." = Gorgonops whaitsi4 Broom 1912 therapsid AMNH 5530a, incomplete and very crushed skull. BMNH R 4053, fragmentary skull. BMNH R 4052, flattened snout
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Alopecorhinus parvidens Broom 1912 therapsid
Scylacoides ferox Broom 1915 therapsid
Ictidognathus hemburyi n. sp. Broom 1912 therapsid | |
"Dicynodon feliceps" = Diictodon feliceps, "Dicynodon ictidops n. sp." = Diictodon feliceps2, "Dicynodon psittacops n. sp." = Diictodon feliceps1, "Dicynodon sollasi" = Diictodon feliceps
"Dicynodon feliceps" = Diictodon feliceps Owen 1876 dicynodont
"Dicynodon ictidops n. sp." = Diictodon feliceps2 Owen 1876 dicynodont AMNH FARB 5510, a poorly prepared, laterally crushed, complete skull
"Dicynodon psittacops n. sp." = Diictodon feliceps1 Owen 1876 dicynodont AMNH FARB 5534, a dorsoventrally crushed skull, lower jaws and most of the postcranium
"Dicynodon sollasi" = Diictodon feliceps Owen 1876 dicynodont | |
"Endothiodon whaitsi" = Endothiodon bathystoma, "Endothiodon uniseries" = Endothiodon bathystoma
"Endothiodon whaitsi" = Endothiodon bathystoma Owen dicynodont
"Endothiodon uniseries" = Endothiodon bathystoma Owen dicynodont | |
"Dicynodon latirostris n. sp." = Oudenodon bainii3
"Dicynodon latirostris n. sp." = Oudenodon bainii3 Owen 1859 therapsid SAM-PK-5141, a poorly preserved, dorsoventrally crushed skull and lower jaws
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