Uitspansfontein, Beaufort West (Permian of South Africa)

Where: Western Cape, South Africa (32.3° S, 22.6° E: paleocoordinates 61.2° S, 30.8° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Cistecephalus Assemblage Zone other zone, Beaufort Group, Wuchiapingian (259.9 - 254.2 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; siliciclastic sediments

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: A. S. Brink. 1961. A new type of primitive cynodont. Palaeontologia africana 7:119-154 [R. Butler/R. Butler]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 181803: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Richard Butler on 04.10.2016

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Osteichthyes
 Anomodontia - Cryptodontidae
Oudenodon baini, "Dicynodon whaitsi" = Odontocyclops whaitsi
Oudenodon baini therapsid
"Dicynodon whaitsi" = Odontocyclops whaitsi Broom 1913 therapsid
 Therapsida - Procynosuchidae
"Scalopocynodon gracilis n. gen. n. sp." = Procynosuchus delaharpeae
"Scalopocynodon gracilis n. gen. n. sp." = Procynosuchus delaharpeae Broom 1937 cynodont
 Therapsida - Gorgonopidae
Scylacops capensis Broom 1913 therapsid