Klipplaat: Wuchiapingian - Changhsingian, South Africa
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Reptilia
- Younginidae
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Youngina capensis
Broom 1914
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Gow 1975 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
| BP/1/2459 | ||||||||||
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Anomodontia
- Cryptodontidae
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Oudenodon bainii
Owen 1859
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| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | South Africa | State/province: | Eastern Cape |
| Coordinates: | 31.4° South, 23.9° East (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 62.3° South, 27.4° West | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||
| Geographic resolution: | local area |
Time
| Period: | Permian | Epoch: | Lopingian |
| 10 m.y. bin: | Permian 4 | ||
| Key time interval: | Wuchiapingian - Changhsingian | Other zone: | Dicynodon Assemblage |
| Age range of interval: | 259.51000 - 251.90200 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Geological group: | Beaufort | Formation: | Balfour | ||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | formation | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: It is said that the fossils come from the "Daptocephalus zone" which is equivalent to the Dicynodon Assemblage Zone. Geographic and stratigraphic data suggest that the locality is in the Balfour Formation of the Beaufort Group (see Catuneanu et al., 2005, J. Afr. Earth Sci., 43, figs. 24, 25). | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | "siliciclastic" |
| Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | survey of museum collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
| Museum repositories: | BPI |
Metadata
| Database number: | 171147 | ||
| Authorizer: | R. Butler | Enterer: | R. Butler |
| Modifier: | R. Butler | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2015-07-03 10:07:11 | Last modified: | 2016-02-07 13:27:40 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2015-07-03 10:07:11 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 27216. | 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] |
Secondary references:
| 55668 | C. E. Gow. 1975. The morphology and relationships of Youngina capensis Broom and Prolacerta broomi Parrington. Palaeontologia africana 18:89-131 [R. Butler/R. Butler] |