Also known as Kuga Berg
Where: Eastern Cape, South Africa (32.6° S, 26.0° E: paleocoordinates 64.4° S, 28.2° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Daptocephalus Assemblage Zone other zone, Beaufort Group, Wuchiapingian to Wuchiapingian (259.9 - 252.2 Ma)
• Daptocephalus or Dicynodon Assemblage Zone is constrained as late Wuchiapingian to Changhsingian on the basis of radioisotopic data (Rubidge et al. 2013, Geology)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Reposited in the BMNH
Primary reference: D. S. Sigogneau-Russell. 1989. Theriodontia I: Phthinosuchia, Biarmosuchia, Eotitanosuchia, Gorgonopsia. Encyclopedia of Paleoherpetology [R. Butler/R. Butler/R. Butler]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 178500: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Richard Butler on 05.05.2016
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Osteichthyes | |
"Lycosaurus curvimola n. sp." = Arctognathus curvimola
"Lycosaurus curvimola n. sp." = Arctognathus curvimola Owen 1876 therapsid BMNH 47339, incomplete and crushed skull
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