Vogelfontein (Prince Albert) (Permian of South Africa)

Also known as Voëlfontein

Where: Western Cape, South Africa (32.7° S, 21.8° E: paleocoordinates 59.5° S, 35.2° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Tapinocephalus Assemblage zone, Abrahamskraal Formation (Beaufort Group), Capitanian (265.1 - 259.9 Ma)

• Kitching (1977, "Distribution of the Karroo Vertebrate Fauna") assigns this locality to the lower Tapinocephalus Zone. This corresponds to the Tapinocephalus Assemblage Zone of Rubidge et al. (1995, South African Committee for Stratigraphy, Biostratigraphic Series No. 1).

•The Tapinocephalus AZ is Capitanian according to Catuneanu et al. (2005, J. Afr. Earth Sci. 43). Since the locality is west of 24°E it very likely is within the Abrahamskraal Fm. (see Catuneanu et al., 2005 figs. 24, 25).

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: "floodplain"; sandstone and claystone

• " [...] deposited mainly by overbank flooding of large meandering rivers of variable sinuosity, draining an extensive alluvial plain [...]" (Catuneanu et al., 2005).
• "fining-upward succession of sandstones and purple mudstones containing numerous thin chert bands and rich tetrapod faunas" (general lithology description of the Abrahamskraal Fm. in Catuneanu et al., 2005, J. Afr. Earth Sci. 43).

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: SAM = Iziko South African Museum, Cape Town

Primary reference: S. H. Haughton and L. D. Boonstra. 1929. Pareiasaurian studies. Part I. - An Attempt at a Classification of the Pareiasauria based on Skull Features. Annals of the South African Museum 28(1):79-87 [J. Mueller/T. Liebrecht/T. Liebrecht]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 93097: authorized by Johannes Mueller, entered by Torsten Liebrecht on 04.01.2010, edited by Bethany Allen

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Procolophonomorpha -
Embrithosaurus sp.1, Bradysaurus seeleyi1, "Bradysaurus baini" = Bradysaurus baini1, "Platyoropha broomi n. gen. n. sp." = Bradysaurus baini
Embrithosaurus sp.1 Watson 1914 parareptile
Bradysaurus seeleyi1 Haughton and Boonstra 1929 parareptile
"Bradysaurus baini" = Bradysaurus baini1 Seeley 1892 parareptile
"Platyoropha broomi n. gen. n. sp." = Bradysaurus baini Seeley 1892 parareptile
SAM 5002 (type)
Osteichthyes
 Therapsida - Anteosauridae
"Anteosaurus abeli" = Anteosaurus magnificus1
"Anteosaurus abeli" = Anteosaurus magnificus1 Watson 1921 therapsid
"skull"
 Therapsida - Titanosuchidae
"Parascapanodon avifontis n. sp." = Titanosuchus ferox1
"Parascapanodon avifontis n. sp." = Titanosuchus ferox1 Owen 1879 therapsid
 Therocephalia - Pristerognathidae
Scymnosaurus sp.1 Broom 1903 therapsid
Amphibia
 Temnospondyli - Rhinesuchidae
Rhinesuchus whaitsi2 Broom 1908 tetrapod
SAM-PK-9135, partial postcrainal skeleton