Spitzkop, Graaff-Reinet: Wuchiapingian, South Africa
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Tapinocephalidae
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Moschops capensis n. sp.
Broom 1911
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Boonstra 1936 | 3 specimens | ||||||||
| ANMH 5550 (holotype), skull; AMNH 5552 and 5553, both topotype skulls | ||||||||||
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Amphibia
- Temnospondyli
- Rhinesuchidae
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Rhinesuchus capensis n. sp.
Haughton 1925
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1 individual | |||||||||
| recombined as Rhinesuchoides capensis | ||||||||||
| SAM 7419, poorly preserved skull (holotype) | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | South Africa | State/province: | Eastern Cape |
| Coordinates: | 32.4° South, 24.3° East (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 62.6° South, 29.7° West | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| Period: | Permian | Epoch: | Lopingian |
| Stage: | Wuchiapingian | 10 m.y. bin: | Permian 4 |
| Key time interval: | Wuchiapingian | Other zone: | Cistecephalus Assemblage Zone |
| Age range of interval: | 259.51000 - 254.14000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Geological group: | Beaufort |
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | "siliciclastic" |
| Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
| Preservation of anatomical detail: | poor |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | survey of museum collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
| Museum repositories: | AMNH |
| Collection method comments: SAM: Iziko South African Museum, Cape Town | |
Metadata
| Database number: | 144271 | ||
| Authorizer: | R. Butler, A. Dunhill | Enterer: | R. Butler, B. Allen |
| Modifier: | B. Allen | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2013-05-03 01:54:05 | Last modified: | 2019-01-04 12:11:32 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2013-05-03 01:54:05 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 46648. | S. H. Haughton. 1925. Investigations in South African fossil reptiles and amphibians (Part 13). Annals of the South African Museum 22:227-261 [R. Butler/R. Butler] |
Secondary references:
| 67681 | L. D. Boonstra. 1936. Some features of the cranial morphology of the tapinocephalid deinocephalians. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 72(2):75-98 [A. Dunhill/B. Allen] |