Kraaifontein (Permian of South Africa)

Where: Western Cape, South Africa (32.0° S, 23.5° E: paleocoordinates 61.8° S, 29.5° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Cistecephalus Assemblage Zone other zone, Beaufort Group, Wuchiapingian (259.9 - 254.2 Ma)

• Radioisotopic data constrains the likely age of the Cistecephalus Zone to Wuchiapingian (Rubidge et al. 2013).

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; siliciclastic sediments

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the BPI

Primary reference: M. J. Toerien. 1953. The evolution of the palate in South African Anomodontia and its classificatory significance. Palaeontologia Africana 1:49-117 [J. Fröbisch/M. Walther]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 176358: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Richard Butler on 08.02.2016

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Osteichthyes
 Therocephalia - Ictidosuchidae
Ictidosuchoides longiceps Broom 1920 therapsid
 Dicynodontia -
Pristerodon buffaloensis Toerien 1953 dicynodont
Skull, listed as BP/1/244
 Dicynodontia - Cistecephalidae
Cistecephalus microrhinus Owen 1876 dicynodont