Where: Western Cape, South Africa (32.3° S, 23.3° E: paleocoordinates 62.2° S, 29.6° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
When: Wuchiapingian to Wuchiapingian (259.9 - 252.2 Ma)
• "Locality data for this specimen is vague; it was found in a region with both Cistecephalus and Dicynodon AZ exposures. Referred specimens of D. lacerticeps occur in both assemblage zones"
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•From Kammerer et al., referring to Tarka prolongation of the Winterberg Range, Dicynodon lacerticeps type locality
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
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 177020: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Juan Benito Moreno on 16.03.2016
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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"Dicynodon strigiceps n. sp." = Oudenodon strigiceps, Dicynodon lacerticeps n. sp.
"Dicynodon strigiceps n. sp." = Oudenodon strigiceps Owen 1845 dicynodont NHMUK 47060, a weathered snout
Dicynodon lacerticeps n. sp. Owen 1845 dicynodont NHMUK 36233, a complete but weathered and poorly preserved skull and lower jaws
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