Farm Water Krantz, Waterkrans (Permian to of South Africa)

Where: Eastern Cape, South Africa (31.8° S, 24.2° E: paleocoordinates 62.6° S, 27.9° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Dicynodon other zone, Balfour Formation (Beaufort Group), Wuchiapingian to Wuchiapingian (259.9 - 252.2 Ma)

• "Although initially considered by Broom (1923) to come from the Lystrosaurus Zone, the beds exposed in this area have more recently been considered to be those of the underlying Dicynodon Assemblage Zone, and thus Late Permian in age (Kitching, 1977, 1995)".

•Lithostratigraphy is from correlation chart in Catuneanu et al. (2005, p. 237, J. Afr. Earth Sci. 43).

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; siliciclastic sediments

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the BMNH

Primary reference: B. S. Rubidge and C. A. Sidor. 2002. On the Cranial Morphology of the Basal Therapsids Burnetia and Proburnetia (Therapsida: Burnetiidae). Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 22(2):257-267 [J. Mueller/T. Liebrecht]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 86258: authorized by Johannes Mueller, entered by Torsten Liebrecht on 27.01.2009, edited by Richard Butler

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Osteichthyes
 Therapsida - Gorgonopidae
Lycaenops ornatus2 Broom 1925 therapsid
BP/1/260, compressed skull and lower jaw
 Anomodontia - Cryptodontidae
Oudenodon bainii1 Owen 1859 therapsid
 Dicynodontia -
Daptocephalus leoniceps1 Owen dicynodont
 Therapsida - Burnetiidae
Burnetia mirabilis n. gen. n. sp.
Burnetia mirabilis n. gen. n. sp. Broom 1923 therapsid
BMNH R5397 (type)