Dalham and Upper Dalham: Wuchiapingian, South Africa

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia
Anthodon serrarius Owen 1876
Gorgonopidae
Pardocephalus wallacei n. gen., n. sp. Broom 1948
Broom 1948 1 individual
synonym of Smilesaurus ferox
RC 82, partial skull
Dinogorgon rubidgei Broom 1936
Kammerer 2016 1 individual
BP/1/5322, weathered partial skull
Anomodontia - Cryptodontidae
Dicynodon cyclops n. sp. Haughton 1917
Haughton 1917 1 individual
synonym of Oudenodon bainii
SAM-PK-3447, a poorly prepared partial skull
Anomodontia
Dicynodontia indet. (Owen 1859)
Includes small, medium and large specimens
see common names

Geography
Country:South Africa State/province:Eastern Cape County:Graaff-Reinet
Coordinates: 32.2° South, 24.6° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:62.7° South, 29.1° West
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Permian Epoch:Lopingian
Stage:Wuchiapingian 10 m.y. bin:Permian 4
Key time interval:Wuchiapingian Zone: Cistecephalus Assemblage Zone
Age range of interval:259.90000 - 254.17000 m.y. ago
Age estimate:256.25 to 255.2 Ma (U/Pb)
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Beaufort Formation:Balfour Member:Oudeberg
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: Direct dates for the Cistecephalus 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
Collection methods:survey of museum collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collection method comments: RC: Rubidge Collection, Wellwood
Metadata
Database number:176504
Authorizer:R. Butler Enterer:J. Benito Moreno, R. Butler
Modifier:R. Butler Research group:vertebrate
Created:2016-02-15 12:12:01 Last modified:2016-05-12 11:00:53
Access level:database members Released:2018-02-15 12:12:01
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:

57014 R. Broom. 1948. A Contribution to our Knowledge of the Vertebrates of the Karroo Beds of South Africa. Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 61(2):577-629 [R. Butler/J. Benito Moreno/J. Benito Moreno]
27200 S.H. Haughton. 1917. Descriptive catalogue of the Anomodontia. with special reference to the examples in the South African Museum. Annals of the South African Museum 12:167-172 [H. Sims/J. Camp]
57838 C. F. Kammerer. 2016. Systematics of the Rubidgeinae (Therapsida: Gorgonopsia). PeerJ 4:e1608 [R. Butler/R. Butler]
57886 D. S. Sigogneau-Russell. 1989. Theriodontia I: Phthinosuchia, Biarmosuchia, Eotitanosuchia, Gorgonopsia. Encyclopedia of Paleoherpetology [R. Butler/R. Butler/R. Butler]