Zuurplaats, Graaff-Reinet (Cistecephalus Assemblage Zone): Wuchiapingian, South Africa

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Anomodontia - Cryptodontidae
Oudenodon marlothi n. sp. Broili and Schröder 1936
BSP 1935 VIII 32, a complete, dorsoventrally crushed skull and lower jaws
see common names

Geography
Country:South Africa State/province:Eastern Cape County:Graaff-Reinet
Coordinates: 32.0° South, 24.2° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:62.4° South, 29.2° West
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
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 255.6 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
Also known as:Zuurplaas
Database number:177587
Authorizer:R. Butler Enterer:J. Benito Moreno
Modifier:J. Benito Moreno Research group:vertebrate
Created:2016-04-05 10:33:52 Last modified:2016-04-05 10:35:21
Access level:database members Released:2018-04-05 10:33:52
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

47069. F. Broili and J. Schröder. 1936. Beobachtungen an Wirbeltieren der Karrooformation. XXII. Ein neuer Galesauride aus der Cynognathus-Zone. Sitzungsberichte der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Mathematisch-naturwissenschaftliche Abteilung 1936:269-282 [R. Butler/R. Butler]