Vlakplaas, Vlakteplaas, Graaff-Reinet (Permian to of South Africa)

Also known as Vlaktesplaas

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

• Daptocephalus or Dicynodon Assemblage Zone is constrained as late Wuchiapingian to Changhsingian on the basis of radioisotopic data (Rubidge et al. 2013, Geology).

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; siliciclastic sediments

Size class: macrofossils

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 178900: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Richard Butler on 20.05.2016, edited by Bethany Allen

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Taxonomic list

Osteichthyes
 Therocephalia - Whaitsiidae
"Theriognathus microps" = Theriognathus microps2, "Notosollasia longiceps n. sp." = Theriognathus microps1
"Theriognathus microps" = Theriognathus microps2 Owen 1876 therapsid
BP/1/100; BP/1/104
"Notosollasia longiceps n. sp." = Theriognathus microps1 Owen 1876 therapsid
BP/1/141, skull
 Therapsida - Gorgonopidae
Rubidgea atrox Broom 1938 therapsid
B 354, laterally crushed skull