Swartbos: Wuchiapingian, South Africa
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Anomodontia
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Dicynodontia indet.
(Owen 1859)
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Kitching 1977 | |||||||||
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Dicynodon psittacops
Broom 1912
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Kitching 1977 | |||||||||
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Dicynodon sollasi
Broom 1921
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Kitching 1977 | |||||||||
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Pristerodon buffaloensis n. sp.
Toerien 1953
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3 specimens | |||||||||
| BP/1/2134 (holotype). Two additional specimens listed as BP/1/242, 243 | ||||||||||
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Dicynodon grimbooki
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Kitching 1977 | |||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | South Africa | State/province: | Western Cape | County: | Beaufort West |
| Coordinates: | 32.0° South, 23.5° East (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 61.8° South, 29.5° West | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
| Period: | Permian | Epoch: | Lopingian |
| Stage: | Wuchiapingian | 10 m.y. bin: | Permian 4 |
| Key time interval: | Wuchiapingian | Other zone: | Cistecephalus Assemblage Zone |
| Age range of interval: | 259.51 - 254.14 m.y. ago | ||
| Age estimate: | 256.25 ± 0.092 to 255.2 ± 0.16 Ma (U/Pb) |
Stratigraphy
| Geological group: | Beaufort | ||||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | group of beds | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: Radioisotopic data constrains the likely age of the Cistecephalus Zone to Wuchiapingian (Rubidge et al. 2013). | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | "siliciclastic" |
| Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | survey of museum collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
| Museum repositories: | BPI |
Metadata
| Also known as: | Swarte Bosch, Swartbosch | ||
| Database number: | 176357 | ||
| Authorizer: | R. Butler | Enterer: | R. Butler |
| Modifier: | R. Butler | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2016-02-08 23:16:09 | Last modified: | 2017-05-23 16:34:15 |
| Access level: | database members | Released: | 2017-02-08 23:16:09 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 37515. | M. J. Toerien. 1953. The evolution of the palate in South African Anomodontia and its classificatory significance. Palaeontologia Africana 1:49-117 [J. Fröbisch/M. Walther] |
Secondary references:
| 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] |