Houdkonstant (Cistecephalus Assemblage Zone): Wuchiapingian, South Africa
collected by J. Kitching 1945
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Therocephalia
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Therocephalia indet.
(Broom 1903)
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unclassified
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Gorgonopsia indet.
Seeley 1894
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Gorgonopidae
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Arctognathus whaitsi n. sp.
Haughton 1924
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Sigogneau-Russell 1989 | 1 individual | ||||||||
| SAM-PK-4337, mold of an incomplete skull | ||||||||||
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Anomodontia
- Cryptodontidae
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Oudenodon bainii
Owen 1859
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Aulacephalodon bainii
(Owen 1845)
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Anomodontia
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Dicynodontia indet.
(Owen 1859)
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Cistecephalus microrhinus
Owen 1876
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| Represented by eight skulls | ||||||||||
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Dicynodon ictidops
Broom 1913
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Dicynodon nanus
Broom 1936
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Geography
| Country: | South Africa | State/province: | Eastern Cape | County: | Camdeboo |
| Coordinates: | 32.0° South, 24.2° East (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 62.4° South, 29.1° 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
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | green calcareous mudstone | ||
| Includes fossils? | Y | ||
| Lithology description: "All the specimens are preserved in fine-grained green mudstone which may or may not form a nodule surrounding the specimen." (Gow, 1972). | |||
| Environment: | terrestrial indet. | Tectonic setting: | foreland basin |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
| Preservation of anatomical detail: | poor |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | survey of museum collection | ||
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis | ||
| Museum repositories: | BPI | ||
| Collectors: | J. Kitching | Collection dates: | 1945 |
Metadata
| Also known as: | Houd Constant, Katbos, Houdconstant | ||
| Database number: | 176339 | ||
| Authorizer: | R. Butler | Enterer: | J. Benito Moreno |
| Modifier: | J. Benito Moreno | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2016-02-08 12:31:32 | Last modified: | 2016-03-10 10:56:44 |
| Access level: | database members | Released: | 2018-02-08 12:31:32 |
| 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:
| 57886 | D. S. Sigogneau-Russell. 1989. Theriodontia I: Phthinosuchia, Biarmosuchia, Eotitanosuchia, Gorgonopsia. Encyclopedia of Paleoherpetology [R. Butler/R. Butler/R. Butler] |