Where: Eastern Cape, South Africa (32.3° S, 24.5° E: paleocoordinates 63.1° S, 28.6° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Daptocephalus Assemblage Zone other zone, Beaufort Group, Wuchiapingian to Wuchiapingian (259.9 - 252.2 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; siliciclastic sediments
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: R. Broom. 1938. The origin of the cynodonts. Annals of the Transvaal Museum 19:279-288 [R. Butler/R. Butler]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 181802: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Richard Butler on 04.10.2016
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Osteichthyes | |
Daptocephalus leoniceps Owen dicynodont | |
Procynosuchus delaharpeae n. gen. n. sp.
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