PBDB Collection

Biesjiespoort, Victoria West: Wuchiapingian, South Africa

List of taxa

Where & when

Geology

Taphonomy & methods

Metadata & references

Taxonomic list

unclassified

	Ictiodon agilis
Therocephalia

	Hofmeyria atavus Broom 1935	Broom 1936
unclassified

	Lycaenodon longiceps n. gen., n. sp. Broom 1925	Sidor 2003	1 individual
	BMNH R5700, anterior two-thirds of a skull lacking lower jaws

	Cynarioides gracilis n. sp. Broom 1930		1 individual
	Sectioned skull (location of type specimen currently unknown)
Gorgonopidae

	Gorgonopsidae indet. Lydekker 1890	Sigogneau-Russell 1989	1 individual
	BMNH R 5746, isolated braincase

	Lycaenops ornatus n. gen., n. sp. Broom 1925	Sigogneau-Russell 1989	1 individual
	AMNH 2240, compressed skull with lower jaw, and most of the postcranial skeleton

	Gorgonops torvus Owen 1876	Sigogneau-Russell 1989	1 individual
	BP/1/386, crushed skull with right lower jaw

	Cynarioides tenuis n. gen., n. sp. Broom 1925	Broom 1925	1 individual
	MMK 2046, crushed skull with lower jaw
unclassified

	Cynariops robustus n. gen., n. sp. Broom 1925	Sigogneau-Russell 1989	1 individual
	BMNH R 5743

	Cynariops sp. Broom 1925	Bendel et al. 2018
Anomodontia - Cryptodontidae

	Dicynodon curtus n. sp. Broom 1921	Broom 1921	1 individual
	SAM-PK-7850, a distorted skull and disarticulated lower jaw

	Dicynodon andrewsi n. sp. Broom 1921	Broom 1921	1 individual
	MMK 4169, a strongle laterallly sheared skull missing the left squamosal and portions of both temporal arches

	Dicynodon wilmanae n. sp. Broom 1928	Broom 1928	1 individual
	MMK 4167, a well-preserved skull missing the right zygomatic arch

	Bainia peavoti n. sp. Broom 1921	Broom 1932
	A complete skull
Anomodontia - Pristerodontidae

	Emyduranus platyops n. gen., n. sp. Broom 1921	Broom 1921
	BMNH R4959, a skull

	Emydorhynchus formosus n. sp. Broom 1935	Broom 1935	1 individual
	TM 241, a crushed skull
Anomodontia

	Cistecephalus angusticeps n. sp. Broom 1932	Broom 1932
	BMNH R 5763, a skull

	Palemydops platysoma n. gen., n. sp. Broom 1921	Broom 1921
	BMNH R 4955, a skull

	Storthyggognathus haughtoni n. gen., n. sp. Janensch 1952	Janensch 1952	1 individual
	BMNK, a skull

	Emydopsis longus n. sp. Broom 1921		3 individuals
	Three skulls, including the holotype BMHN R. 4956-9

	Dicynodon sollasi n. sp. Broom 1921	Broom 1921	1 individual
	SAM-PK-7420, a dorsoventrally crushed complete skull and lower jaws

	Dicynodon psittacops Broom 1912
see common names

Geography

Country:	South Africa	State/province:	Northern Cape	County:	Victoria West
Coordinates:	31.4° South, 23.1° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:	61.3° South, 28.7° West
Basis of coordinate:	based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:	local area

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:	group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: Direct dates for 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

Metadata

Also known as:	Biesiespoort, Nobelsfontein
Database number:	174666
Authorizer:	R. Butler, A. Dunhill, M. Uhen	Enterer:	J. Benito Moreno, B. Allen, R. Butler, A. Morgan
Modifier:	R. Butler	Research group:	vertebrate
Created:	2015-11-23 09:18:19	Last modified:	2016-05-16 06:56:48
Access level:	database members	Released:	2017-11-23 09:18:19
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:

78808		E.-M. Bendel, C.F. Kammerer, N. Kardjilov, V. Fernandez, and J. Fröbisch. 2018. Cranial anatomy of the gorgonopsian Cynariops robustus based on CT-reconstruction. PLoS ONE 13(11):e0207367 [M. Uhen/A. Morgan/M. Uhen]
37442		R. Broom. 1921. On some new genera and species of anomodont reptiles from the Karroo beds of South Africa. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 647-674 [J. Fröbisch/M. Walther/M. Uhen]
59059		R. Broom. 1925. On some carnivorous therapsids. Records of the Albany Museum 3:309-326 [R. Butler/R. Butler]
58726		R. Broom. 1928. On three new species of Dicynodon. Annals of the South African Museum 22:421-425 [R. Butler/J. Benito Moreno]
27212		R. Broom. 1932. The mammal-like reptiles of South Africa and the Origin of Mammals [H. Sims/J. Camp]
37750		R. Broom. 1935. A new genus and some new species of mammal-like reptiles. Annals of the Transvaal Museum 18(1):1-12 [J. Fröbisch/M. Walther]
67672		R. Broom. 1936. On the structure of the skull in the mammal-like reptiles of the suborder Therocephalia. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Series B, Biological Sciences Sciences 226(529):1-42 [A. Dunhill/B. Allen/M. Carrano]
43467		W. Janensch. 1952. Zwei neue Anomodontier mit Molaren und Crista masseterica aus den Karroo-Schichten Südafrikas [Two new anomodonts with molars and a masseteric crest from the Karroo Beds of South Africa]. Palaeontologische Zeitschrift 26(3/4):218-228 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
57953		C. A. Sidor. 2003. The naris and palate of Lycaenodon longiceps (Therapsida: Biarmosuchia), with comments on their early evolution in the Therapsida. Journal of Paleontology 77(5):977-984 [R. Butler/R. Butler]
57886		D. S. Sigogneau-Russell. 1989. Theriodontia I: Phthinosuchia, Biarmosuchia, Eotitanosuchia, Gorgonopsia. Encyclopedia of Paleoherpetology [R. Butler/R. Butler/R. Butler]