Leeufontein, Murraysburg (Permian of South Africa)

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

Osteichthyes
 Therapsida - Gorgonopidae
Arctops kitchingi n. sp.2 Sigogneau 1970 therapsid
BP/1/265, skull
 Anomodontia - Cryptodontidae
"Aulacocephalodon vanderhorsti n. sp." = Aulacephalodon bainii1
"Aulacocephalodon vanderhorsti n. sp." = Aulacephalodon bainii1 Owen 1845 therapsid
BP 156, a complete skull
 Dicynodontia - Cistecephalidae
Cistecephalus microrhinus1 Owen 1876 dicynodont