Rocklands, Beaufort West (Permian to of South Africa)

Where: Western Cape, South Africa (31.7° S, 22.4° E: paleocoordinates 61.3° S, 29.1° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Beaufort Group, Wuchiapingian to Wuchiapingian (259.9 - 252.2 Ma)

• Uncertain if this is from Tropidostoma, Cistecephalus or Daptocephalus/Dicynodon Assemblage Zone. Overall age of these zones ranges from Wuchiapingian to Changhsingian

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: SAM: South African Museum, Cape Town

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 178276: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Richard Butler on 29.04.2016

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Osteichthyes
 Therapsida - Gorgonopidae
Aelurognathus tigriceps Broom and Haughton 1913 therapsid
SAM-PK-11121, crushed skull