Where: Western Cape, South Africa (31.9° S, 23.8° E: paleocoordinates 62.0° S, 29.2° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
When: Cistecephalus Assemblage Zone zone, Beaufort Group, Wuchiapingian (259.9 - 254.2 Ma)
• Direct dates for the Cistecephalus Assemblage Zone from Rubidge et al., 2013
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
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 180462: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Juan Benito Moreno on 18.07.2016, edited by Bethany Allen
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Osteichthyes | |
Aulacephalodon bainii, "Dicynodon scheepersi" = Rhachiocephalus magnus, "Pelanomodon wesselsi n. sp." = Rhachiocephalus magnus1
"Dicynodon scheepersi" = Rhachiocephalus magnus Owen 1876 therapsid | |
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Diictodontoides skaios n. sp.3
Diictodontoides skaios n. sp.3 Watson 1960 dicynodont UMZC T.420, a skull, lower jaw and most of the postcranial skeleton
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Reptilia | |
Pareiasaurus serridens Owen parareptile |