Aasvoƫlkrans, Murraysburg (Cistecephalus Assemblage Zone) (Permian of South Africa)

Also known as Aasvogelkrans, Kapokplaas

Where: Western Cape, South Africa (32.1° S, 23.7° E: paleocoordinates 62.0° S, 29.7° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Cistecephalus Assemblage Zone 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

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 181609: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Juan Benito Moreno on 20.09.2016

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Osteichthyes
 Anomodontia - Cryptodontidae
Oudenodon bainii Owen 1859 therapsid
Rhachiocephalus magnus Owen 1876 therapsid
 Dicynodontia -
 Dicynodontia - Cistecephalidae
Cistecephalus microrhinus Owen 1876 dicynodont
 Dicynodontia -
"Parringtoniella broomi n. gen. n. sp." = Pristerodon mackayi
"Parringtoniella broomi n. gen. n. sp." = Pristerodon mackayi Huxley 1868 dicynodont
BPI 302, a complete but distorted skull without lower jaw
 Therocephalia -
 Therocephalia - Ictidosuchidae
Ictidosuchoides longiceps Broom 1920 therapsid
 Therapsida -
Gorgonopsia indet. Seeley 1894 therapsid