Where: Western Cape, South Africa (32.4° S, 22.6° E: paleocoordinates 61.3° S, 30.9° 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 (Rubidge et al. 2013, Geology).
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; siliciclastic sediments
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 178830: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Richard Butler on 17.05.2016
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Taxonomic list
Osteichthyes | |
"Synostocephalus cf. vanhoepeni" = Pristerodon vanhoepeni
"Synostocephalus cf. vanhoepeni" = Pristerodon vanhoepeni Broili and Schroeder 1935 dicynodont | |
"Leptotrachelus eupachygnathus n. gen. n. sp." = Leptotracheliscops eupachygnathus
"Leptotrachelus eupachygnathus n. gen. n. sp." = Leptotracheliscops eupachygnathus Watson 1921 therapsid BMNH R 4051, flattened and incomplete skull
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