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
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Reptilia | |
Bradysaurus baini Seeley 1892 parareptile | |
Osteichthyes | |
Pristerognathus peyeri n. sp.
Pristerognathus peyeri n. sp. Broili and Schröder 1936 therapsid | |
"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 |