Abrahamskraal, Prince Albert: Capitanian, South Africa
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia
|
||||||||||
Bradysaurus angusta
|
Kitching 1977 | |||||||||
Bradysaurus strubeni
|
Kitching 1977 | |||||||||
Bradysaurus vanderbyli n. sp.
Haughton and Boonstra 1929
|
Haughton and Boonstra 1929 | 1 individual | ||||||||
SAM 3718 (type) | ||||||||||
Bradysaurus baini
(Seeley 1892)
|
Haughton and Boonstra 1929 | 2 individuals | ||||||||
SAM 4347 (not mentioned by Lee, 1997) + one skull reposited in Tübingen, Germany (see v. Huene, 1931, Geol. Paläont. Abh. N.F. 18) | ||||||||||
Dolichopareia angusta
Haughton and Boonstra 1929
|
Boonstra 1969 | |||||||||
Brachypareia watsoni n. sp.
Haughton and Boonstra 1929
|
Boonstra 1969 | |||||||||
Reptilia
- Styracocephalidae
|
||||||||||
Styracocephalus platyrhynchus
Haughton 1929
|
Rubidge and van den Heever 1997 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
SAM 9346, posterior portion of skull roof and separate portion with heeled incisor teeth | ||||||||||
Varanopidae
|
||||||||||
Elliotsmithia longiceps n. gen., n. sp.
Broom 1937
|
Broom 1937 | 1 individual | ||||||||
TMP 1483 (type) | ||||||||||
Titanosuchidae
|
||||||||||
Titanosuchus strubeni
|
Kitching 1977 | |||||||||
Titanosuchus ferox
Owen 1879
|
Kitching 1977 | |||||||||
Scapanodon duplessisi
Broom 1904
|
Broom 1923 | |||||||||
Titanosuchus cloetei
Broom 1903
|
Kitching 1977 | |||||||||
Dinartamus vanderbyli n. gen., n. sp.
Broom 1923
|
Kitching 1977 | |||||||||
Titanosuchus dubius n. sp.
Haughton 1915
|
Kitching 1977 | |||||||||
Jonkeria vanderbyli n. sp.
Broom 1929
|
Kitching 1977 | |||||||||
Jonkeria truculenta
van Hoepen 1914
|
Kitching 1977 | |||||||||
Phoneosuchus angusticeps n. sp.
Broom 1929
|
Boonstra 1969 | |||||||||
Jonkeria koupensis
Boonstra 1955
|
Kitching 1977 | |||||||||
Dinopolus atrox n. sp.
Broom 1936
|
Kitching 1977 | |||||||||
Anteosauridae
|
||||||||||
Anteosaurus magnificus
Watson 1921
|
Kitching 1977 | |||||||||
Tapinocephalidae
|
||||||||||
Criocephalus vanderbyli n. sp.
Broom 1928
|
Kitching 1977 | |||||||||
Keratocephalus moloch n. sp.
von Huene 1931
|
Kitching 1977 | |||||||||
Struthiocephalus intermedius
|
Kitching 1977 | |||||||||
Struthiocephalus whaitsi
Haughton 1915
|
Kitching 1977 | |||||||||
Struthiocephalellus parvus n. sp.
Boonstra 1955
|
Boonstra 1969 | |||||||||
Taurocephalus lerouxi n. sp.
Broom 1928
|
Kitching 1977 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
AMNH 5655 (holotype), skull | ||||||||||
Therocephalia
- Lycosuchidae
|
||||||||||
Trochorhinus vanhoepeni
Broom 1936
|
Kitching 1977 | |||||||||
Trochosaurus intermedius n. sp.
Haughton 1913
|
Boonstra 1969 | |||||||||
Trochosaurus major
Broom 1932
|
Kitching 1977 | |||||||||
Therocephalia
- Pristerognathidae
|
||||||||||
Alopecognathus megalops n. sp.
Broom 1937
|
Kitching 1977 | |||||||||
Scymnosaurus sp.
Broom 1903
|
Kitching 1977 | |||||||||
Pristerognathus vanderbyli n. sp.
Broom 1936
|
Kitching 1977 | |||||||||
Lycedops scholtzi n. sp.
Broom 1936
|
Kitching 1977 | |||||||||
Therocephalia
- Alopecodontidae
|
||||||||||
Alopecodon priscus
Broom
|
Kitching 1977 | |||||||||
Alopecodon minor n. sp.
Broom 1925
|
Boonstra 1969 | |||||||||
Anomodontia
|
||||||||||
Dicynodon pseudojouberti
Boonstra 1948
|
Kitching 1977 | |||||||||
Robertia broomiana
Boonstra 1948
|
King 1988 | 1 individual | ||||||||
SAM-PK-3354, a skull | ||||||||||
Dicynodon jouberti
Broom 1905
|
Kitching 1977 | |||||||||
unclassified
|
||||||||||
Eoarctops vanderbyli n. gen., n. sp.
Haughton 1929
|
Haughton 1929 | 1 individual | ||||||||
SAM-PK-5598 (holotype) | ||||||||||
Galesuchus gracilis n. gen., n. sp.
Haughton 1915
|
Haughton 1915 | 1 individual | ||||||||
SAM-PK-2754 (holotype) | ||||||||||
see common names |
Geography
Country: | South Africa | State/province: | Western Cape | County: | Prince Albert |
Coordinates: | 32.9° South, 22.0° East (view map) | ||||
Paleocoordinates: | 59.8° South, 35.4° West | ||||
Basis of coordinate: | based on political unit | ||||
Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
Period: | Permian | Epoch: | Guadalupian |
Stage: | Capitanian | 10 m.y. bin: | Permian 4 |
Key time interval: | Capitanian | Zone: | Tapinocephalus Assemblage |
Age range of interval: | 264.28 - 259.51 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
Geological group: | Beaufort | Formation: | Abrahamskraal | ||
Stratigraphic resolution: | member | ||||
Stratigraphy comments: "Tapinocephalus Assemblage Zone, Late Permian" (Dilkes & Reisz, 1996);
The Tapinocephalus AZ is Capitanian in age according to Catuneanu et al. (2005, J. Afr. Earth Sci., 43). Lithostratigraphic informations are from Catuneanu et al. (2005) as well. |
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | sandstone | ||
Secondary lithology: | claystone | ||
Lithology description: "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) | |||
Environment: | "floodplain" | Tectonic setting: | foreland basin |
Geology comments: " [...] deposited mainly by overbank flooding of large meandering rivers of variable sinuosity, draining an extensive alluvial plain [...]" (Catuneanu et al., 2005). |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body |
Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods: | survey of museum collection |
Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
Museum repositories: | TMP |
Collection method comments: SAM = Iziko South African Museum, Cape Town | |
Taxonomic list comments:"This locality has also yielded the abundant remains of morphologically and presumably palaeoecologically diverse therapsid taxa (Kitching 1977)." (Dilkes & Reisz, 1996). |
Metadata
Also known as: | Farm Abrahamskraal | ||
Database number: | 86388 | ||
Authorizer: | J. Mueller, A. Dunhill, R. Butler | Enterer: | T. Liebrecht, R. Butler, J. Benito Moreno, B. Allen |
Modifier: | J. Benito Moreno | Research group: | vertebrate |
Created: | 2009-02-01 13:17:01 | Last modified: | 2016-08-19 10:45:08 |
Access level: | authorizer only | Released: | 2012-02-01 13:17:01 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
29105. | D. W. Dilkes and R. R. Reisz. 1996. First record of a basal synapsid (‘mammal-like reptile’) in Gondwana. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Series B 263:1165-1170 [J. Mueller/T. Liebrecht] |
Secondary references:
67683 | L. D. Boonstra. 1969. The fauna of the Tapinocephalus Zone (Beaufort Beds of the Karoo). Annals of the South African Museum 56(1):1-73 [A. Dunhill/B. Allen] | |
67669 | R. Broom. 1923. On the Structure of the Skull in the Carnivorous Dinocephalian Reptiles. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 93(4) [A. Dunhill/B. Allen] | |
55690 | R. Broom. 1937. A further contribution to our knowledge of the fossil reptiles of the Karroo. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 107(3):299-318 [R. Butler/R. Butler] | |
57892 | S. H. Haughton. 1915. Investigations in South African fossil reptiles and amphibia. 7. On some new gorgonopsians. Annals of the South African Museum 12:82-90 [R. Butler/R. Butler] | |
57893 | S. H. Haughton. 1929. On some new therapsid genera. Annals of the South African Museum 28:55-78 [R. Butler/R. Butler] | |
31439 | 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] | |
57888 | C. F. Kammerer, R. M. H. Smith, M. O. Day and B. S. Rubidge. 2015. New information on the morphology and stratigraphic range of the mid‐Permian gorgonopsian Eriphostoma microdon Broom, 1911. Papers in Palaeontology [R. Butler/R. Butler] | |
29055 | G. M. King. 1988. Anomodontia. In G. Fischer (ed.), Encyclopedia of Paleoherpetology 1-174 [H. Sims/J. Camp] | |
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] | |
67668 | B. S. Rubidge and J. A. van den Heever. 1997. Morphology and systematic position of the dinocephalian Styracocephalus platyrhynchus. Lethaia 30:157-168 [A. Dunhill/B. Allen] |