Seekoeigat, Prince Albert: Capitanian, South Africa

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Anomodontia
Eosimops newtoni Broom 1921
Angielczyk and Rubidge 2013
Robertia broomiana Boonstra 1948
King 1988 1 individual
SAM-PK-1337, a skull
Dicynodon megalorhinus (Broom 1904)
Boonstra 1969
nomen dubium belonging to Emydops
Therocephalia - Scylacosauridae
Glanosuchus macrops Broom 1904
Therocephalia - Pristerognathidae
Pristerognathoides sp. Boonstra 1954
Therocephalia - Alopecodontidae
Alopecodon priscus n. sp. Broom
Alopecodon rugosus n. sp. Broom
Boonstra 1969
synonym of Alopecodon priscus
Titanosuchidae
Scapanodon duplessisi n. sp. Broom 1904
Boonstra 1969
synonym of Titanosuchus ferox
unclassified
Eriphostoma microdon Broom 1911
Kammerer et al. 2015 1 specimen
NMQR 3006
see common names

Geography
Country:South Africa State/province:Western Cape County:Prince Albert
Coordinates: 33.1° South, 22.5° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:60.2° South, 35.5° West
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:local area
Time
Period:Permian Epoch:Guadalupian
Stage:Capitanian 10 m.y. bin:Permian 4
Key time interval:Capitanian Other zone: Tapinocephalus Assemblage Zone
Age range of interval:264.28000 - 259.51000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphic resolution:member
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: not reported
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
Collection method comments: NM: National Museum, Bloemfontein
Metadata
Also known as:Seekoegat, Zeekoeigat
Database number:176247
Authorizer:R. Butler, A. Dunhill Enterer:R. Butler, B. Allen, J. Benito Moreno
Modifier:P. Wagner Research group:vertebrate
Created:2016-02-04 04:55:01 Last modified:2021-07-14 12:55:41
Access level:the public Released:2016-02-04 04:55:01
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:

60405 K. D. Angielczyk and B. S. Rubidge. 2013. Skeletal morphology, phylogenetic relationships and stratigraphic range of Eosimops newtoni Broom, 1921, a pylaecephalid dicynodont (Therapsida, Anomodontia) from the Middle Permian of South Africa. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 11(2):191-213 [R. Butler/J. Benito Moreno]
67683 L. D. Boonstra. 1969. The fauna of the Tapinocephalus Zone (Beaufort Beds of the Karoo). Annals of the South African Museum 56(1):1-73 [A. Dunhill/B. Allen]
57888 C. F. Kammerer, R. M. H. Smith, M. O. Day and B. S. Rubidge. 2015. New information on the morphology and stratigraphic range of the mid‐Permian gorgonopsian Eriphostoma microdon Broom, 1911. Papers in Palaeontology [R. Butler/R. Butler]
29055 G. M. King. 1988. Anomodontia. In G. Fischer (ed.), Encyclopedia of Paleoherpetology 1-174 [H. Sims/J. Camp]