Steilkrans, Fort Beaufort: Wuchiapingian, South Africa
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Therocephalia
- Ictidosuchidae
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Ictidosuchoides longiceps
Broom 1920
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Therocephalia
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Tigrisuchus simus
Owen
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Gorgonopidae
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Lycaenops ornatus
Broom 1925
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Anomodontia
- Cryptodontidae
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Oudenodon megalops n. sp.
Owen 1876
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Owen 1876 | 1 individual | ||||||||
| NHMUK 47061, a very poorly preserved, weathered partial skull | ||||||||||
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Aulacephalodon bainii
(Owen 1845)
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Anomodontia
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Cistecephalus microrhinus n. gen., n. sp.
Owen 1876
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Owen 1876 | |||||||||
| BMNH R47066, an imperfect skull | ||||||||||
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Cistecephalus planiceps n. sp.
Owen 1876
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Owen 1876 | |||||||||
| BMNH R47070, an imperfect skull | ||||||||||
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Dicynodon woodwardi
Broom 1913
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Dinanomodon rubidgei n. gen., n. sp.
Broom 1938
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Broom 1938 | |||||||||
| RC No. 9, a skull | ||||||||||
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Dicynodon parvidens n. sp.
Owen 1876
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Owen 1876 | 1 individual | ||||||||
| NHMUK 47062, a partial skull and jaws in a matrix nodule | ||||||||||
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Cistecephalus leptorhinus n. sp.
Owen 1876
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Owen 1876 | 1 individual | ||||||||
| NHMUK 47067, an extremely poorly preserved partial skull | ||||||||||
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Reptilia
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Anthodon serrarius n. gen., n. sp.
Owen 1876
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Owen 1876 | 1 individual | ||||||||
| BMNH 47337 | ||||||||||
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Geography
| Country: | South Africa | State/province: | Graaff-Reinet |
| Coordinates: | 32.0° South, 24.5° East (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 62.6° South, 28.7° West | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| Period: | Permian | Epoch: | Lopingian |
| Stage: | Wuchiapingian | 10 m.y. bin: | Permian 4 |
| Key time interval: | Wuchiapingian | Zone: | Cistecephalus Assemblage Zone |
| Age range of interval: | 259.51 - 254.14 m.y. ago | ||
| Age estimate: | 256.25 to 255.2 Ma (U/Pb) |
Stratigraphy
| Geological group: | Beaufort | ||||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: Direct dates for the Cistecephalus Assemblage Zone from Rubidge et al., 2013 | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | not reported |
| Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
| Museum repositories: | BMNH |
Metadata
| Also known as: | Stylkranz, Stylkrans | ||
| Database number: | 171378 | ||
| Authorizer: | R. Butler | Enterer: | R. Butler, J. Benito Moreno |
| Modifier: | R. Butler | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2015-07-09 07:25:44 | Last modified: | 2017-05-23 16:34:15 |
| Access level: | database members | Released: | 2017-07-09 07:25:44 |
| 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:
| 59471 | A. S. Brink. 1954. On the Whatsiidae, a family of therocephalian mammal-like reptiles. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Africa 34(1):43-59 [R. Butler/R. Butler] | |
| 37216 | R. Broom. 1938. On two new anomodont genera. Annals of the Transvaal Museum 19:247-250 [J. Fröbisch/M. Walther/M. Uhen] | |
| 29040 | R. Owen. 1876. Descriptive and Illustrated catalogue of the Fossil Reptilia of South Africa in the Collection of the British Museum of Natural History. [H. Sims/J. Camp] |