Where: Eastern Cape, South Africa (32.7° S, 26.1° E: paleocoordinates 64.1° S, 29.1° W)
• coordinate based on political unit
When: Cistecephalus Assemblage Zone zone, Beaufort Group, Wuchiapingian (259.9 - 254.2 Ma)
• Direct dates for the Cistecephalus Assemblage Zone from Rubidge et al., 2013
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 177544: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Juan Benito Moreno on 04.04.2016
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Osteichthyes | |
Dicranozygoma leptoscelus n. gen. n. sp.
Dicranozygoma leptoscelus n. gen. n. sp. Seeley 1900 dicynodont AMG 407, a slab with the mold of a partial skeleton
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