Also known as The Third Drift, Sundays River
Where: Eastern Cape, South Africa (32.3° S, 24.5° E: paleocoordinates 62.8° S, 29.4° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
When: Cistecephalus Assemblage Zone zone, 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 178113: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Juan Benito Moreno on 19.04.2016
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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"Dicynodon scheepersi n. sp." = Rhachiocephalus magnus, "Dicynodon whaitsi" = Odontocyclops whaitsi
"Dicynodon scheepersi n. sp." = Rhachiocephalus magnus Owen 1876 therapsid RC 95, a well-preserved skull missing the right postorbital bar
"Dicynodon whaitsi" = Odontocyclops whaitsi Broom 1913 therapsid | |
Dicynodontia indet. dicynodont Unidentifies specimens from this locality include medium and large Dicynodontia
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Clelandina rubidgei n. gen. n. sp.
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