Where: Eastern Cape, South Africa (32.0° S, 24.4° E: paleocoordinates 62.9° S, 28.1° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Daptocephalus Assemblage Zone other zone, Beaufort Group, Wuchiapingian to Wuchiapingian (259.9 - 252.2 Ma)
• Dicynodon or Daptocephalus Assemblage Zone constrained as late Wuchiapingian to Changhsingian on the basis of radioisotopic data
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; siliciclastic sediments
Size class: macrofossils
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 178872: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Richard Butler on 19.05.2016
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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"Notosollasia laticeps" = Theriognathus microps1
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"Prorubidgea robusta n. sp." = Dinogorgon rubidgei
"Prorubidgea robusta n. sp." = Dinogorgon rubidgei Broom 1936 therapsid BP/1/249, well-preserved skull with lower jaw, cervical vertebrae, and hand
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