Matjiesfontein, Murraysburg (Permian of South Africa)

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 (Rubidge et al. 2013, Geology)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; siliciclastic sediments

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: RC, Rubidge Collection, Wellwood

Primary reference: J. W. Kitching. 1977. The distribution of the Karroo vertebrate fauna. Memoirs of the Bernard Price Institute for Palaeontological Research 1:1-131 [H. Sims/J. Camp]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 178865: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Richard Butler on 19.05.2016, edited by Bethany Allen

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Osteichthyes
 Dicynodontia - Cistecephalidae
Cistecephalus microrhinus Owen 1876 dicynodont
 Therocephalia - Whaitsiidae
Theriognathus microps1 Owen 1876 therapsid
BP/1/4093
 Therapsida - Gorgonopidae
Lycaenops ornatus2 Broom 1925 therapsid
RC 147, 148, skulls