Where: Eastern Cape, South Africa (31.9° S, 24.4° E: paleocoordinates 62.9° S, 27.9° W)
• coordinate based on political unit
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Daptocephalus Assemblage zone, Balfour Formation (Beaufort Group), Wuchiapingian to Wuchiapingian (259.9 - 252.2 Ma)
• Daptocephalus Assemblage Zone (Gow, 1972), equivalent to the Dicynodon Assemblage Zone. Geographic and stratigraphic data suggest that the locality is in the Balfour Formation of the Beaufort Group (see Catuneanu et al., 2005, J. Afr. Earth Sci., 43, figs. 24, 25). Recent radioistopic dating (Rubidge et al. 2013) suggests Wuchiapingian-Changhsingian age for the Daptocephalus AZ.
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; green, calcareous mudstone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by S. H. Rubidge in 1938
Collection methods: acetic,
• R.C. = "S. H. Rubidge collection housed on the farm Wellwood near Graff Reinet"
Primary reference: C. E. Gow. 1972. The osteology and relationships of the Millerettidae (Reptilia: Cotylosauria). Journal of Zoology, London 167:219-264 [J. Mueller/J. Dummasch]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 80220: authorized by Johannes Mueller, entered by Jana Dummasch on 09.04.2008, edited by Richard Butler
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Reptilia | |
"Millerina rubidgei n. gen. n. sp." = Milleretta rubidgei
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Osteichthyes | |
"Leontocephalus cadlei n. gen. n. sp." = Aelurognathus tigriceps
"Leontocephalus cadlei n. gen. n. sp." = Aelurognathus tigriceps Broom and Haughton 1913 therapsid RC 35 (type), weathered skull
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