Ferndale, Graaff-Reinet (Daptocephalus or Cistecephalus Assemblage Zone) (Permian to of South Africa)

Where: Eastern Cape, South Africa (32.3° S, 24.5° E: paleocoordinates 63.1° S, 28.6° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Cistecephalus or Daptocephalus Assemblage Zone other zone, Beaufort Group, Wuchiapingian to Wuchiapingian (259.9 - 252.2 Ma)

• This collection includes specimens from Ferndale for which it has not been specified if they come from the Daptocephalus or the Cistecephalus Assemblage Zone

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; siliciclastic sediments

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the BPI

Primary reference: C. F. Kammerer. 2016. Systematics of the Rubidgeinae (Therapsida: Gorgonopsia). PeerJ 4:e1608 [R. Butler/R. Butler]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 178891: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Richard Butler on 20.05.2016

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Osteichthyes
 Therapsida - Gorgonopidae
Aelurognathus tigriceps Broom and Haughton 1913 therapsid
RC 115, skull and lower jaws
Dinogorgon rubidgei Broom 1936 therapsid
BP/1/2167, partial snout and lower jaw