Swartgrond (Permian of South Africa)

Where: Western Cape, South Africa (33.1° S, 22.9° E: paleocoordinates 60.6° S, 37.4° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Eodicynodon Assemblage zone, Abrahamskraal Formation (Beaufort Group), Wordian (266.9 - 264.3 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: delta plain; mudstone and sandstone

• Rubidge et al. (2000) interpret the basal Abrahamskraal Fm. as a subaerial delta plain environment representing the non-marine part of a second-order highstand systems tract.
• There is no lithologic data in the primary reference. A stratigraphic log of the Ecca/Beaufort boundary interval of the Swartgrond area is given in Rubidge et al. (2000, S. Afr. J. Geol. 103(1)).

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: NMQR = National Museum, Bloemfontein, South Africa

Primary reference: B. S. Rubidge, G. M. King, and J. P. Hancox. 1994. The Postcranial Skeleton of the Earliest Dicynodont Synapsid Eodicynodon from the Upper Permian of South Africa. Palaeontology 37(2):397-408 [J. Mueller/T. Liebrecht]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 94779: authorized by Johannes Mueller, entered by Torsten Liebrecht on 12.03.2010

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Taxonomic list

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Osteichthyes
 Dicynodontia -
Eodicynodon oosthuizeni
Eodicynodon oosthuizeni Barry 1974 dicynodont
NMQR 3158; partial skull associated with scapula and forelimb