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
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"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
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Nanictosaurus kitchingi n. gen. n. sp.2
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"Moschorhinus minor n. sp." = Moschorhinus kitchingi1
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