The Willows, Middelburg (Permian to of South Africa)

Where: Eastern Cape, South Africa (31.6° S, 24.6° E: paleocoordinates 62.9° S, 27.1° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

When: Dicynodon Assemblage Zone other zone, Wuchiapingian to Wuchiapingian (259.9 - 252.2 Ma)

• According to Broom 1950, the horizon is unknown, but probably Cistecephalus AZ. Kitching 1977 lists it as Dicynodon (Daptocephalus) Assemblage Zone.

•Maximum date for the Dicynodon Assemblage Zone from Rubidge et al., 2013.

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by S. H. Rubidge in 01/01/1947

Primary reference: R. Broom. 1950. Three new species of anomodonts from the Rubidge Collection. Annals of the Transvaal Museum 21:256-250 [R. Butler/J. Benito Moreno]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 180678: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Juan Benito Moreno on 27.07.2016

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Taxonomic list

Osteichthyes
 Anomodontia - Cryptodontidae
"Pelanomodon halli n. sp." = Pelanomodon moschops
"Pelanomodon halli n. sp." = Pelanomodon moschops Broom 1913 therapsid
A complete skull