Willodene Farm, Locality 1 (Permian of South Africa)

Also known as Beato 238

Where: Western Cape, South Africa (32.3° S, 21.7° E)

• Paleocoordinates: 50.1° S, 21.4° W (Wright 2013)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Tropidostoma Assemblage other zone, Hoedemaker Member (Teekloof Formation), Wuchiapingian (259.9 - 254.2 Ma)

• "[...] middle of the Tropidostoma AZ [...] middle of the locally named Hoedemaker Member of the Teekloof Formation (Smith and Keyser, 1995), which we estimate to be late Middle Permian in age" (Sidor & Smith, 2007)

• Recent radioisotopic dates constrain the Tropidostoma AZ to Wuchiapingian.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: crevasse splay; gray, green siltstone and mudstone

• "These sediments occur in 5–10 m thick coarsening-upward sequences interpreted as prograding crevasse splay sequences. They were laid down by repeated overbank flood events emanating from the channel banks and ponding in the lowland flood basins." (Sidor & Smith, 2007)
• "Most of the vertebrate fossils are found in the thick greenishgrey massively bedded siltstone with minor mudstone intercalations that occur between the main channel sandstones. These sediments occur in 5–10 m thick coarsening-upward sequences interpreted as prograding crevasse splay sequences." (Sidor & Smith, 2007)

Size class: macrofossils

Collected in 1985, 1986

Primary reference: J. Botha, F. Abdala, and R. M. H. Smith. 2007. The oldest cynodont: new clues on the origin and early diversification of the Cynodontia. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 149(3):477-492 [J. Mueller/T. Liebrecht]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 86278: authorized by Johannes Mueller, entered by Torsten Liebrecht on 27.01.2009

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Taxonomic list

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Osteichthyes
 Dicynodontia - Pylaecephalidae
Diictodon sp.
Diictodon sp. Broom 1913 dicynodont
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