Where: Eastern cape, South Africa (32.7° S, 25.3° E: paleocoordinates 63.5° S, 29.6° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
When: Cistecephalus Assemblage Zone zone, 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 180787: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Juan Benito Moreno on 02.08.2016
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Osteichthyes | |
Ictidosuchoides longiceps Broom 1920 therapsid | |
"Emydops parvus n. sp." = Emydops arctatus
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Cistecephalus microrhinus Owen 1876 dicynodont |