Rhenosterfontein: Wuchiapingian, South Africa

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Anomodontia - Cryptodontidae
Oudenodon kolbei n. sp. Broom 1912
SAM-PK-1886, a well-preserved skull and distal humerus
see common names

Geography
Country:South Africa State/province:Western Cape County:Beaufort West
Coordinates: 31.9° South, 24.0° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:62.2° South, 29.0° West
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
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
Metadata
Database number:177008
Authorizer:R. Butler Enterer:J. Benito Moreno
Research group:vertebrate
Created:2016-03-15 13:59:44 Last modified:2016-03-15 13:59:44
Access level:database members Released:2018-03-15 13:59:44
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]