Where: Western Cape, South Africa (32.0° S, 23.4° E: paleocoordinates 62.1° S, 28.9° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Beaufort Group, Wuchiapingian to Wuchiapingian (259.9 - 252.2 Ma)
• Probably represents the Tropidostoma, Cistecephalus or Daptocephalus Assemblage Zone, constrained as Wuchiapingian-Changhsingian on the basis of radioisotopic dates (Rubidge et al. 2013. Geology).
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: RC: Rubidge Collection, Wellwood
Primary reference: C. F. Kammerer. 2016. Systematics of the Rubidgeinae (Therapsida: Gorgonopsia). PeerJ 4:e1608 [R. Butler/R. Butler]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 178273: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Richard Butler on 29.04.2016
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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"Tigricephalus kingwilli n. gen. n. sp." = Aelurognathus tigriceps
"Tigricephalus kingwilli n. gen. n. sp." = Aelurognathus tigriceps Broom and Haughton 1913 therapsid RC 60, complete skull and lower jaws
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