Leeukloof 43: Wuchiapingian, South Africa
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Reptilia
- Captorhinidae
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Saurorictus australis n. gen., n. sp.
Modesto and Smith 2001
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1 individual | |||||||||
| SAM PK-8666 (holotype) | ||||||||||
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Reptilia
- Younginidae
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Youngina capensis
Broom 1914
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Smith and Evans 1995 | 5 individuals | ||||||||
| SAM K7710 (assemblage of 5 juvenile individuals); see comments on taxonomic list | ||||||||||
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Charassognathidae
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Abdalodon diastematicus n. gen., n. sp.
Kammerer 2016
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Kammerer 2016 | |||||||||
| SAM-PK-K10138, skull and lower jaws | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | South Africa | State/province: | Western Cape | County: | Beaufort West |
| Coordinates: | 31.9° South, 22.4° East (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 61.0° South, 30.2° West | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on political unit | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| Period: | Permian | Epoch: | Lopingian |
| Stage: | Wuchiapingian | 10 m.y. bin: | Permian 4 |
| Key time interval: | Wuchiapingian | Zone: | Tropidostoma Assemblage |
| Age range of interval: | 259.51 - 254.14 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Geological group: | Beaufort | Formation: | Teekloof | Member: | Hoedemaker |
| Stratigraphy comments: "Tropidostoma Assemblage Zone, middle Tatarian" (Modesto & Smith, 2001); "The new Youngina locality is [...] within a regionally extensive mudrock sequence (informally termed the Hoedemaker member) that forms part of the Teekloof Formation of the lower Beaufort Group (Adelaide Subgroup)." (Smith & Evans, 1995). The Tropidostoma AZ is Wuchiapingian according to Catuneanu et al. (2005, Afr. J. Earth Sci. 43) and is "previously known as the lower Cistecephalus Zone of Kitching (1977)." (Smith & Evans, 1995). | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | claystone | ||
| Secondary lithology: | siltstone | ||
| Includes fossils? | Y | ||
| Includes fossils? | Y | ||
| Environment: | dry floodplain | Tectonic setting: | foreland basin |
| Geology comments: " [...] semi-arid floodplain. The host sediments are interpreted as having accumulated on the proximal floodplain of a large meandering riverchannel (Smith, 1993)." | |||
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body,permineralized |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
| Articulated whole bodies: | none |
| Temporal resolution: | snapshot |
| Spatial resolution: | autochthonous |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | field collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
| Collection method comments: SAM = South African Museum, Cape Town | |
| Taxonomic list comments:In Smith and Evans (1995) only the name "Youngina", always without the specific epithet, is applied to the specimen SAM K7710, but in a later paper (Palaeontology 39(2), 1996), these authors explicitly state that it represents Y. capensis (here not considered to be a true re-identification). | |
Metadata
| Also known as: | Leeuw Kloof, Leeuwkloof | ||
| Database number: | 84714 | ||
| Authorizer: | J. Mueller, A. Dunhill | Enterer: | T. Liebrecht, B. Allen |
| Modifier: | T. Liebrecht | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2008-11-07 17:31:33 | Last modified: | 2010-03-19 09:23:12 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2008-11-07 17:31:33 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 28420. | S. P. Modesto and R. M. H. Smith. 2001. A new Late Permian captorhinid reptile: a first record from the South African Karoo. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 21(3):405-409 [J. Mueller/T. Liebrecht] |
Secondary references:
| 59526 | C. F. Kammerer. 2016. A new taxon of cynodont from the Tropidostoma Assemblage Zone (Upper Permian) of South Africa, and the early evolution of Cynodontia. Papers in Palaeontology 2(3):387-397 [R. Butler/R. Butler/B. Allen] | |
| 29668 | R. M. H. Smith and S. E. Evans. 1995. An Aggregation of Juvenile Youngina from the Beaufort Group, Karoo Basin, South Africa. Palaeontologia Africana 32:45-49 [J. Mueller/T. Liebrecht] |