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 | |
Gorgonopsia indet. Seeley 1894 therapsid | |
"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
Oudenodon bainii Owen 1859 therapsid | |
Dicynodontia indet. dicynodont | |
"Dicynodon nanus" = Diictodon feliceps, "Dicynodon ictidops" = Diictodon feliceps
"Dicynodon nanus" = Diictodon feliceps Owen 1876 dicynodont
"Dicynodon ictidops" = Diictodon feliceps Owen 1876 dicynodont | |
"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
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Nanictocephalus richardi n. gen. n. sp.
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