Wapadsberg Area (Dicynodon Assemblage Zone) (Permian to of South Africa)

Where: Eastern Cape, South Africa (31.9° S, 24.9° E: paleocoordinates 63.3° S, 27.7° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

When: Dicynodon other zone, Balfour Formation (Beaufort Group), Wuchiapingian to Wuchiapingian (259.9 - 252.2 Ma)

• Maximum date for the Dicynodon Assemblage Zone from Rubidge et al., 2013. PJW: Dicynodon zone in Wapadsberg area is Balfour formation. (The member is not certain.)

• group-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 177604: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Juan Benito Moreno on 06.04.2016

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Osteichthyes
 Dicynodontia -
"Daptocephalus leoniceps" = Daptocephalus leoniceps, "Dicynodon osborni n. sp." = Daptocephalus leoniceps
"Daptocephalus leoniceps" = Daptocephalus leoniceps Owen dicynodont
"Dicynodon osborni n. sp." = Daptocephalus leoniceps Owen dicynodont
AMNH FARB 5598, a dorsoventrally crushed partial skull
 Therapsida - Galesauridae
Nanictosaurus kitchingi n. gen. n. sp.2
Nanictosaurus kitchingi n. gen. n. sp.2 Broom 1936 cynodont
TM 279, skull
 Therocephalia - Akidnognathidae
"Moschorhinus minor n. sp." = Moschorhinus kitchingi1
"Moschorhinus minor n. sp." = Moschorhinus kitchingi1 Broom 1920 therapsid
TM 268, snout