Where: Eastern Cape, South Africa (33.0° S, 27.8° E: paleocoordinates 65.6° S, 28.4° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
When: Tropidostoma Assemblage Zone zone, Wuchiapingian (259.9 - 254.2 Ma)
• Previously identified as "Endothiodon" zone, was listed as Cistecephalus zone by Kitching, 1977, before the definition of the Tropidostoma zone (Rubidge, 1995). Kammerer et al., 2011 cite fossils coming from this area as belonging to the Tropidostoma Assemblage Zone.
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•Direct dates for the Tropidostoma Assemblage Zone from Rubidge et al., 2013
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
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 178109: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Juan Benito Moreno on 19.04.2016
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Lycosuchus mackayi n. sp.1
Lycosuchus mackayi n. sp.1 Broom 1903 therapsid Kitching, 1963 considers this specimen to be Theriodonta incertae sedis.
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Aulacocephalus pithecops n. gen. n. sp.
Aulacocephalus pithecops n. gen. n. sp. Seeley 1898 dicynodont BMNH R. 1819, a slightly broken and crushed skull
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"Pristerodon mackayi n. gen. n. sp." = Pristerodon mackayi2, "Oudenodon raniceps n. sp." = Pristerodon mackayi
"Pristerodon mackayi n. gen. n. sp." = Pristerodon mackayi2 Huxley 1868 dicynodont BMNH R 1810, a complete skull and lower jaw
"Oudenodon raniceps n. sp." = Pristerodon mackayi Huxley 1868 dicynodont NHMUK R1650, a dorsoventrally crushed skull and lower jaws
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Oudenodon cf. bainii Owen 1859 therapsid | |