Also known as Leeuwfontein
Where: Western Cape, South Africa (32.0° S, 23.8° E: paleocoordinates 62.0° S, 29.2° 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 is constrained as Wuchiapingian on the basis of radioisotopic data
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; siliciclastic sediments
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by Kitching; reposited in the BPI
Primary reference: A. S. Brink and J. W. Kitching. 1953. Studies on new specimens of the Gorgonopsia. Palaeontologia Africana 1:1-28 [R. Butler/R. Butler]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 178734: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Richard Butler on 13.05.2016
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Arctops kitchingi n. sp.2
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"Aulacocephalodon vanderhorsti n. sp." = Aulacephalodon bainii1
"Aulacocephalodon vanderhorsti n. sp." = Aulacephalodon bainii1 Owen 1845 therapsid BP 156, a complete skull
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