Also known as Leeupoort, Leeuwkloof, ETE Locality 1536
Where: Western Cape, South Africa (32.1° S, 22.0° E: paleocoordinates 60.7° S, 30.8° W)
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Tropidostoma Assemblage Zone zone, Teekloof Formation (Beaufort Group), Wuchiapingian (259.9 - 254.2 Ma)
• Originally entered as Kungurian to Olenekian
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•Direct date for the Tropidostoma Assemblage Zone from Rubidge et al., 2013
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Environment/lithology: crevasse splay; sandstone and claystone
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: ETE Size: .; ETE reference list: 478, ; ETE museum list:
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 22661: authorized by Anna Behrensmeyer, entered by Anna Behrensmeyer on 17.04.2001, edited by Juan Benito Moreno and Richard Butler
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Pareiasaurus serridens Owen parareptile | |
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Pristerodon indet., "Emydopsis microdon n. sp." = Pristerodon mackayi, "Eumantellia mirus n. gen. n. sp." = Pristerodon mirus
Pristerodon indet. Huxley 1868 dicynodont
"Eumantellia mirus n. gen. n. sp." = Pristerodon mirus Broom 1935 dicynodont TM 248, a rather badly weathered anterior part of skull
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Palemydops minor n. sp.3
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Emyduranus gracilis n. sp.1
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"Tropidostoma microtrema" = Tropidostoma dubium, "Dicynodon acutirostris n. sp." = Tropidostoma dubium1, "Dicynodon validus n. sp." = Tropidostoma dubium1
"Tropidostoma microtrema" = Tropidostoma dubium Owen 1876 therapsid
"Dicynodon validus n. sp." = Tropidostoma dubium1 Owen 1876 therapsid TM 252, a distorted snout and anterior portion of the lower jaws
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"Cynarioides grimbeeki n. sp." = Scylacognathus grimbeeki4 Broom 1935 therapsid TMP 246, crushed skull and mandible
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Aelurosaurus sp.4, "Galerhinus polyodon n. gen. n. sp." = Aelurosaurus polyodon, Aelurosaurus brevirostris n. sp.2
"Galerhinus polyodon n. gen. n. sp." = Aelurosaurus polyodon Broom 1935 therapsid TM P341, snout with part of lower jaw
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