Karreelaagte, New Bethesda (Permian to of South Africa)

Also known as Kareelagte, Kagreeleegte

Where: Eastern Cape, South Africa (31.9° S, 24.5° E: paleocoordinates 63.0° S, 27.8° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

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

• The locality is listed as Daptocephalus (Dicynodon) AZ by Kitching, 1977. King, 1988 identifies it as Cistecephalus AZ.

•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

Primary reference: 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]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 114905: authorized by Jörg Fröbisch, entered by Marcus Walther on 25.08.2011, edited by Juan Benito Moreno

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Osteichthyes
 Anomodontia - Cryptodontidae
"Pelanomodon rubidgei n. gen. n. sp." = Pelanomodon moschops
"Pelanomodon rubidgei n. gen. n. sp." = Pelanomodon moschops Broom 1913 therapsid
RC 10 (holotype)
 Therocephalia - Ictidosuchidae
Ictidosuchops intermedius Broom 1938 therapsid
 Therapsida - Procynosuchidae
Procynosuchus delaharpeae Broom 1937 cynodont
RC 130, partial skull with lower jaw
Reptilia
 Procolophonomorpha -
Pareiasaurus serridens Owen parareptile