Rooipoort, Murraysburg (Permian of South Africa)

Also known as Roodepoort

Where: Western Cape, South Africa (32.1° S, 23.9° E: paleocoordinates 62.2° S, 29.6° 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 data (Rubidge et al. 2013, Geology).

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; siliciclastic sediments

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the BPI

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 178805: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Richard Butler on 16.05.2016

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Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Parareptilia - Millerettidae
Millerettidae indet. Romer 1956 parareptile
Osteichthyes
 Therapsida - Gorgonopidae
cf. Cyonosaurus longiceps Olson 1937 therapsid
Gorgonops torvus Owen 1876 therapsid
BP/1/385, well preserved skull
 Anomodontia - Cryptodontidae
 Dicynodontia - Cistecephalidae
Cistecephalus microrhinus Owen 1876 dicynodont
Amphibia
 Temnospondyli -