Swaershoek (Permian to of South Africa)

Also known as Swagershoek

Where: Eastern Cape, South Africa (32.5° S, 25.4° E: paleocoordinates 63.9° S, 28.4° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Dicynodon Assemblage Zone zone, Beaufort Group, Wuchiapingian to Wuchiapingian (259.9 - 252.2 Ma)

• Maximum date for the Dicynodon Assemblage Zone from Rubidge et al., 2013

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

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 177601: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Juan Benito Moreno on 06.04.2016

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Osteichthyes
 Anomodontia - Cryptodontidae
Aulacephalodon bainii, "Dicynodon nesemanni n. sp." = Oudenodon bainii2
Aulacephalodon bainii Owen 1845 therapsid
"Dicynodon nesemanni n. sp." = Oudenodon bainii2 Owen 1859 therapsid
TM 1481, a partial skull, now lost
 Dicynodontia -
Dicynodontia indet.
Dicynodontia indet. dicynodont
Unidentified specimens include small to medium Dicynodontia
 Therapsida - Gorgonopidae
Cyonosaurus longiceps
Cyonosaurus longiceps Olson 1937 therapsid
Reptilia
 Procolophonomorpha -
"Anthodon nesemanni n. sp." = Pareiasaurus serridens1
"Anthodon nesemanni n. sp." = Pareiasaurus serridens1 Owen parareptile
Skull
1Broom 1940; 2Broom 1940