Where: Free State, South Africa (30.5° S, 26.0° E: paleocoordinates 63.5° S, 23.9° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Dicynodon Assemblage Zone other zone, Katberg Formation (Beaufort Group), Wuchiapingian to Wuchiapingian (259.9 - 252.2 Ma)
• Direct maximum date for the Dicynodon Assemblage Zone from Rubidge et al., 2013
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; siliciclastic sediments
Size class: macrofossils
Reposited in the BPI
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 177542: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Juan Benito Moreno on 04.04.2016
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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"Daptocephalus leoniceps" = Daptocephalus leoniceps, "Dicynodon leontops n. sp." = Daptocephalus leoniceps
"Daptocephalus leoniceps" = Daptocephalus leoniceps Owen dicynodont
"Dicynodon leontops n. sp." = Daptocephalus leoniceps Owen dicynodont AMNH FARB 5582, a nearly complete, laterally crushed skull, lower jaws and cervical vertabrae
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