Dalham and Upper Dalham: Wuchiapingian, South Africa
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Gorgonopidae
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Pardocephalus wallacei n. gen., n. sp.
Broom 1948
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Broom 1948 | 1 individual | ||||||||
| RC 82, partial skull | ||||||||||
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Dinogorgon rubidgei
Broom 1936
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Kammerer 2016 | 1 individual | ||||||||
| BP/1/5322, weathered partial skull | ||||||||||
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Anomodontia
- Cryptodontidae
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Dicynodon cyclops n. sp.
Haughton 1917
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Haughton 1917 | 1 individual | ||||||||
| SAM-PK-3447, a poorly prepared partial skull | ||||||||||
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Anomodontia
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Dicynodontia indet.
(Owen 1859)
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| Includes small, medium and large specimens | ||||||||||
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Reptilia
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Anthodon serrarius
Owen 1876
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| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | South Africa | State/province: | Eastern Cape | County: | Graaff-Reinet |
| Coordinates: | 32.2° South, 24.6° East (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 62.7° South, 29.1° 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 | 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: | not reported |
| 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 |
| Collection method comments: RC: Rubidge Collection, Wellwood | |
Metadata
| Database number: | 176504 | ||
| Authorizer: | R. Butler | Enterer: | J. Benito Moreno, R. Butler |
| Modifier: | R. Butler | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2016-02-15 12:12:01 | Last modified: | 2016-05-12 11:00:53 |
| Access level: | database members | Released: | 2018-02-15 12:12:01 |
| 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:
| 57014 | R. Broom. 1948. A Contribution to our Knowledge of the Vertebrates of the Karroo Beds of South Africa. Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 61(2):577-629 [R. Butler/J. Benito Moreno/J. Benito Moreno] | |
| 27200 | S.H. Haughton. 1917. Descriptive catalogue of the Anomodontia. with special reference to the examples in the South African Museum. Annals of the South African Museum 12:167-172 [H. Sims/J. Camp] | |
| 57838 | C. F. Kammerer. 2016. Systematics of the Rubidgeinae (Therapsida: Gorgonopsia). PeerJ 4:e1608 [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] |