Doornplaas (Cistecephalus or Daptocephalus Assemblage Zone) (Permian to of South Africa)

Also known as Doornplaats; Rust

Where: Eastern Cape, South Africa (32.1° S, 24.3° E: paleocoordinates 62.9° S, 28.4° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

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

• This collection is for fossils that come from Doornplaas, but where it has not been specified if they are from the Cistecephalus or Daptocephalus 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 178903: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Richard Butler on 20.05.2016

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Osteichthyes
 Therapsida - Gorgonopidae
Rubidgea atrox Broom 1938 therapsid
BP/1/3857, complete skull and lower jaws. B 353, complete skull