Kleinwaterval (Permian of South Africa)

Also known as Klein-Waterval

Where: Western Cape, South Africa (33.0° S, 22.3° E: paleocoordinates 60.0° S, 35.4° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

When: Tapinocephalus Assemblage Zone zone, Beaufort Group, Capitanian (264.3 - 259.5 Ma)

• The minimum date included here is a direct radioisotopic date for the overlying Pristerognathus Assemblage Zone from Rubidge et al. (2013, Geology)

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 178115: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Juan Benito Moreno on 19.04.2016

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Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Procolophonomorpha -
Bradysaurus baini Seeley 1892 parareptile
Osteichthyes
 Therocephalia - Pristerognathidae
Pristerognathus peyeri n. sp. Broili and Schröder 1936 therapsid
 Dicynodontia - Pylaecephalidae
"Dicynodon schroederi n. sp." = Robertia broomiana, "Dicynodon vanderhorsti" = Diictodon feliceps
"Dicynodon schroederi n. sp." = Robertia broomiana Boonstra 1948 dicynodont
BP/1/2235, a poorly preserved skull missing the temporal arches
"Dicynodon vanderhorsti" = Diictodon feliceps Owen 1876 dicynodont