Doornplaas (Cistecephalus Assemblage Zone) (Permian of South Africa)

Also known as Doornplaats; Rust

Where: Eastern Cape, South Africa (32.1° S, 24.3° E: paleocoordinates 62.5° S, 29.1° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Cistecephalus other zone, Beaufort Group, Wuchiapingian (259.9 - 254.2 Ma)

• Direct dates for the Cistecephalus Assemblage Zone from Rubidge et al., 2013

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; siliciclastic sediments

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by J. Kitching, A. T. Bremner in 1962 and later; reposited in the BPI

Collection methods: acetic,

• SAM = Iziko South African Museum, Cape Town

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 179335: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Juan Benito Moreno on 13.06.2016

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Osteichthyes
 Therapsida -
Gorgonopsia indet. Seeley 1894 therapsid
 Anomodontia - Cryptodontidae
"Platycyclops haughtoni n. gen. n. sp." = Rhachiocephalus magnus, Aulacephalodon bainii, Oudenodon bainii
"Platycyclops haughtoni n. gen. n. sp." = Rhachiocephalus magnus Owen 1876 therapsid
SAM 8750, a complete skull
Aulacephalodon bainii Owen 1845 therapsid
Represented by four skulls from this locality
Oudenodon bainii Owen 1859 therapsid
 Dicynodontia -
 Dicynodontia - Pylaecephalidae
"Dicynodon nanus" = Diictodon feliceps, "Dicynodon ictidops" = Diictodon feliceps
"Dicynodon nanus" = Diictodon feliceps Owen 1876 dicynodont
"Dicynodon ictidops" = Diictodon feliceps Owen 1876 dicynodont
 Dicynodontia - Cistecephalidae
"Cistecephalus microrhinus" = Cistecephalus microrhinus, "Cistecephalus major n. sp." = Cistecephalus microrhinus
"Cistecephalus microrhinus" = Cistecephalus microrhinus Owen 1876 dicynodont
Represented by 25 skulls housed in various collections
"Cistecephalus major n. sp." = Cistecephalus microrhinus Owen 1876 dicynodont
RC 79, a skull
 Therocephalia - Scaloposauridae
Nanictocephalus richardi n. gen. n. sp.
Nanictocephalus richardi n. gen. n. sp. Broom 1940 therapsid
Skull