Gannavlakte farm, Prince Albert District (Permian of South Africa)

Where: Western Cape, South Africa (33.2° S, 22.1° E)

• Paleocoordinates: 55.4° S, 34.3° W (Wright 2013)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Eodicynodon AZ other zone, Combrinkskraal Member (Abrahamskraal Formation), Wordian (266.9 - 264.3 Ma)

• "Eodicynodon Assemblage Zone...in rocks of the Combrinkskraal Member of the lowermost Abrahamskraal Formation" Kammerer & Rubidge (2022). The age of the Eodicynodon Assemblage Zone (AZ) is considered to be Wordian (Rubidge, 2005; Rubidge & Day, 2020).

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

• "The biozone reaches a maximum thickness of 1 100 m in the Prince Albert Road area and thins to the east and west" (Rubidge & Day, 2020)

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: C. F. Kammerer and B. S. Rubidge. 2022. The earliest gorgonopsians from the Karoo Basin of South Africa. Journal of African Earth Sciences 194(104631) [E. Dunne/E. Dunne/E. Dunne]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 226244: authorized by Emma Dunne, entered by Emma Dunne on 27.06.2022

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Taxonomic list

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Osteichthyes
 Therapsida -
Gorgonopsia indet.
Gorgonopsia indet. Seeley 1894 therapsid
NMQR 2982 (associated skull fragments consisting of the anterior tip of the snout and occluded anterior tip of the mandible)