Where: Western Cape, South Africa (32.3° S, 22.6° E: paleocoordinates 60.0° S, 34.1° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Tapinocephalus Assemblage Zone other zone, Beaufort Group, Capitanian (265.1 - 259.9 Ma)
• Radioisotopic data constrains the likely age of the Tapinocephalus Zone to Capitanian (Rubidge et al. 2013).
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; siliciclastic sediments
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by J. R. Joubert in 1883
• SAM: South African Museum, Cape Town
Primary reference: R. Broom. 1903. On Some New Primitive Theriodonts in the South African Museum. Annals of the South African Museum 4(2):147-158 [J. Mueller/T. Liebrecht]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 179623: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Richard Butler on 22.06.2016, edited by Bethany Allen
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Osteichthyes | |
"Moschognathus whaitsi n. sp." = Moschops capensis2 Broom 1911 therapsid AMNH 5602 (holotype), mandible and partial upper jaw
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"Dicynodon jouberti n. sp." = Diictodon feliceps2
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"Dicynodon pseudojouberti n. sp." = Diictodon pseudojouberti2, "Pristerodon brachyops n. sp." = Emydops arctatus1
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Ictidosaurus angusticeps n. gen. n. sp.
Ictidosaurus angusticeps n. gen. n. sp. Broom 1903 therapsid | |
Scymnosaurus ferox n. sp.2
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"Scylacorhinus falkenbachi" = Scylacosaurus sclateri2
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