Middlevlei, Murraysburg (Permian to of South Africa)

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

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Taxonomic list

Osteichthyes
 Therapsida - Gorgonopidae
"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