Spandau Kop, Graaff-Reinet Commonage (Permian of South Africa)

Where: Eastern Cape, South Africa (32.3° S, 24.5° E: paleocoordinates 62.7° S, 29.3° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Cistecephalus Assemblage Zone other zone, Beaufort Group, Wuchiapingian (259.9 - 254.2 Ma)

• Cistecephalus Assemblage Zone, constrained as Wuchiapingian 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 178274: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Richard Butler on 29.04.2016

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Taxonomic list

Osteichthyes
 Therapsida - Gorgonopidae
"Clelandina major n. sp." = Clelandina rubidgei
"Clelandina major n. sp." = Clelandina rubidgei Broom 1948 therapsid
RC 94, poorly preserved skull