Where: Eastern Cape, South Africa (32.3° S, 24.5° E: paleocoordinates 62.7° S, 29.3° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Cistecephalus Assemblage Zone other zone, Beaufort Group, Wuchiapingian (259.9 - 254.2 Ma)
• Cistecephalus Assemblage Zone is constrained to Wuchiapingian on the basis of radioisotopic data
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; siliciclastic sediments
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: RC: Rubidge Collection, Wellwood
Primary reference: D. S. Sigogneau-Russell. 1989. Theriodontia I: Phthinosuchia, Biarmosuchia, Eotitanosuchia, Gorgonopsia. Encyclopedia of Paleoherpetology [R. Butler/R. Butler/R. Butler]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 178743: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Richard Butler on 13.05.2016
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Osteichthyes | |
"Cyniscops longiceps n. sp." = Cyonosaurus longiceps
"Cyniscops longiceps n. sp." = Cyonosaurus longiceps Olson 1937 therapsid RC 75, badly preserved skull and mandible
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