Hoeksplaas (Dicynodon Assemblage Zone): Wuchiapingian - Changhsingian, South Africa
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Reptilia
- Owenettidae
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Owenetta rubidgei
Broom 1939
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2 individuals | |||||||||
| Two skulls embedded in a small block of matrix | ||||||||||
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Therocephalia
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Therocephalia indet.
(Broom 1903)
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Therocephalia
- Whaitsiidae
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Theriognathus microps
Owen 1876
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Huttenlocker and Abdala 2015 | |||||||||
| BP/1/145, 153, 160, 163, 164, 182, 1202; SAM-PKK5512; UCM 23381; UCMP 42676 | ||||||||||
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Moschorhynchus brachyrhinus n. sp.
Brink 1954
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Brink 1954 | 1 individual | ||||||||
| BP/1/149 | ||||||||||
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Whaitsia pricei n. sp.
Broom and Robinson 1948
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Brink 1954 | 1 individual | ||||||||
| BP/1/9, skull | ||||||||||
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Aneugomphius ictidoceps n. gen., n. sp.
Broom and Robinson 1949
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Brink 1954 | 1 individual | ||||||||
| BP/1/11, skull | ||||||||||
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Therocephalia
- Ictidosuchidae
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Ictidosuchops intermedius
Broom 1938
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Procynosuchidae
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Aelurodraco microps n. gen., n. sp.
Broom and Robinson 1948
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Hopson and Kitching 1972 | 1 individual | ||||||||
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Silphedestes polyodon n. gen., n. sp.
Broom 1949
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1 individual | |||||||||
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Galesauridae
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Nanictosaurus robustus n. sp.
Broom 1940
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Broom 1940 | 1 individual | ||||||||
| RC 48, partial skull | ||||||||||
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Anomodontia
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Dicynodontia indet.
(Owen 1859)
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Digalodon rubidgei
Broom and Robinson 1948
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Kammerer et al. 2015 | |||||||||
| BP/1/157, skull and lower jaws (may be from Cistecephalus zone) | ||||||||||
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Dicynodon cadlei n. sp.
Broom 1940
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Broom 1940 | 1 individual | ||||||||
| RC 23, a skull missing the right temporal arch | ||||||||||
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Daptocephalus leoniceps
(Owen)
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Anomodontia
- Cryptodontidae
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Oudenodon bainii
Owen 1859
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4 individuals | |||||||||
| Four skulls | ||||||||||
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unclassified
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Gorgonopsia indet.
Seeley 1894
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Gorgonopidae
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Lycaenops alticeps n. sp.
Brink and Kitching 1953
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Kammerer 2016 | 1 individual | ||||||||
| BP/1/813 | ||||||||||
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Rubidgea cf. platyrhina
Brink and Kitching 1953
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Sigogneau-Russell 1989 | 1 individual | ||||||||
| BP/1/195, partially restored skull and lower jaws | ||||||||||
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= Rubidgea atrox
Broom 1938
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Kammerer 2016 | |||||||||
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Cyonosaurus longiceps
Olson 1937
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2 individuals | |||||||||
| Two skulls | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | South Africa | State/province: | Western Cape | County: | Murraysburg |
| Coordinates: | 31.6° South, 23.2° East (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 61.8° South, 28.4° West | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | local area |
Time
| Period: | Permian | Epoch: | Lopingian |
| Stage: | Wuchiapingian - Changhsingian | 10 m.y. bin: | Permian 4 |
| Key time interval: | Wuchiapingian - Changhsingian | Zone: | Dicynodon Assemblage Zone |
| Age range of interval: | 259.51 - 251.902 m.y. ago | ||
| Age estimate: | maximum 255.2 Ma (U/Pb) |
Stratigraphy
| Geological group: | Beaufort | ||||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | group of beds | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: Direct date for the Dicynodon Assemblage Zone from Rubidge et al., 2013 | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | not reported |
| Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
| Museum repositories: | BPI |
Metadata
| Also known as: | Kleinefontein | ||
| Database number: | 174623 | ||
| Authorizer: | R. Butler, A. Dunhill | Enterer: | J. Benito Moreno, B. Allen, R. Butler |
| Modifier: | R. Butler | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2015-11-19 07:54:30 | Last modified: | 2016-10-04 10:57:49 |
| Access level: | database members | Released: | 2017-11-19 07:54:30 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 27216. | J. W. Kitching. 1977. The distribution of the Karroo vertebrate fauna. Memoirs of the Bernard Price Institute for Palaeontological Research 1:1-131 [H. Sims/J. Camp] |
Secondary references:
| 59471 | A. S. Brink. 1954. On the Whatsiidae, a family of therocephalian mammal-like reptiles. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Africa 34(1):43-59 [R. Butler/R. Butler] | |
| 27202 | R. Broom. 1940. On some new genera and species of fossil reptiles from the Karroo Beds of Graaff-Reinet. Annals of the Transvaal Museum 20:157-192 [H. Sims/J. Camp/R. Butler] | |
| 57572 | R. Broom. 1940. Some new Karroo reptiles from the Graaff-Reinet district. Annals of the Transvaal Museum 20:71-87 [R. Butler/J. Benito Moreno] | |
| 35219 | J. A. Hopson and J. W. Kitching. 1972. A revised classification of cynodonts (Reptilia; Therapsida). Palaeontologia africana 14:71-85 [R. Butler/R. Butler] | |
| 67078 | A. K. Huttenlocker and F. Abdala. 2015. Revision of the first therocephalian, Theriognathus Owen (Therapsida: Whaitsiidae), and implications for cranial ontogeny and allometry in nonmammaliaform eutheriodonts. Journal of Paleontology 89(4):645-664 [A. Dunhill/B. Allen] | |
| 57838 | C. F. Kammerer. 2016. Systematics of the Rubidgeinae (Therapsida: Gorgonopsia). PeerJ 4:e1608 [R. Butler/R. Butler] | |
| 66753 | C. F. Kammerer, K. D. Angielczyk, and J. Fröbisch. 2015. Redescription of Digalodon rubidgei, an emydopoid dicynodont (Therapsida, Anomodontia) from the Late Permian of South Africa. Fossil Record 18:43-55 [A. Dunhill/B. Allen/P. Wagner] | |
| 57886 | D. S. Sigogneau-Russell. 1989. Theriodontia I: Phthinosuchia, Biarmosuchia, Eotitanosuchia, Gorgonopsia. Encyclopedia of Paleoherpetology [R. Butler/R. Butler/R. Butler] |