Bloukrans - Eodicynodon AZ (Permian of South Africa)

Where: Western Cape, South Africa (33.1° S, 21.6° E: paleocoordinates 59.5° S, 38.0° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Eodicynodon other zone, Abrahamskraal Formation (Beaufort Group), Wordian (266.9 - 264.3 Ma)

• The specimen was found 1062 m above the Ecca–Beaufort contact, which is 498 m above the lowest continuous maroon mudrock bed of the Beaufort Group

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; mudstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by C. Dube in 2002; reposited in the BPI

Collection methods: mechanical,

Primary reference: Z. A. Jinnah and B. Rubidge. 2007. A double-tusked dicynodont and its biostratigraphic significance. South African Journal of Science 103:51-53 [R. Butler/R. Butler]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 176321: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Richard Butler on 08.02.2016

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Osteichthyes
 Dicynodontia -
Eodicynodon oosthuizeni Barry 1974 dicynodont
BP/1/6230, skull and isolated postcranial elements