Tarka prolongation of the Winterberg Range: Wuchiapingian - Changhsingian, South Africa
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Geography
| Country: | South Africa | State/province: | Western Cape | County: | Beaufort West |
| Coordinates: | 32.3° South, 23.3° East (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 62.2° South, 29.6° West | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark |
Time
| Period: | Permian | Epoch: | Lopingian |
| 10 m.y. bin: | Permian 4 | ||
| Key time interval: | Wuchiapingian - Changhsingian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 259.51000 - 251.90200 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Stratigraphy comments: "Locality data for this specimen is vague; it was found in a region with both Cistecephalus and Dicynodon AZ exposures. Referred specimens of D. lacerticeps occur in both assemblage zones"
From Kammerer et al., referring to Tarka prolongation of the Winterberg Range, Dicynodon lacerticeps type locality |
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 |
Metadata
| Database number: | 177020 | ||
| Authorizer: | R. Butler | Enterer: | J. Benito Moreno | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2016-03-16 09:29:05 | Last modified: | 2016-03-16 09:29:05 |
| Access level: | database members | Released: | 2018-03-16 09:29:05 |
| 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:
| 57253 | R. Owen. 1845. Report on the Reptilian Fossils of South Africa: PART I.—Description of certain Fossil Crania, discovered by AG Bain, Esq., in Sandstone Rocks at the South-eastern extremity of Africa, referable to different species of an Extinct genus of Reptilia (Dicynodon), and indicative of a new Tribe or Sub-order of Sauria. Transactions of the Geological Society of London 7:59-84 [R. Butler/J. Benito Moreno] |