Sneeuberg Range: Wuchiapingian, South Africa
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Therocephalia
- Scaloposauridae
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Scaloposaurus constrictus
Owen
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Therocephalia
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Tigrisuchus simus
Owen
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Anomodontia
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Endothiodon bathystoma
Owen
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Eurycarpus oweni n. gen., n. sp.
Seeley 1889
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Seeley 1889 | 1 individual | ||||||||
| NHMUK 46075, two slabs containing natural molds of a partial dicynodon skeleton | ||||||||||
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Gorgonopidae
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Lycosaurus pardalis n. sp.
Owen 1876
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Owen 1876 | |||||||||
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Galesauridae
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Cynosuchus suppostus n. gen., n. sp.
Owen 1876
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1 individual | |||||||||
| Albany Museum specimen | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | South Africa | State/province: | Eastern Cape | County: | Graaff-Reinet |
| Coordinates: | 31.8° South, 24.9° East (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 62.9° South, 28.2° 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 255.2 Ma (U/Pb) |
Stratigraphy
| 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,mold/impression |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
Metadata
| Also known as: | Sneewberg | ||
| Database number: | 177606 | ||
| Authorizer: | R. Butler, A. Dunhill | Enterer: | J. Benito Moreno, B. Allen |
| Modifier: | R. Butler | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2016-04-06 11:18:27 | Last modified: | 2016-10-03 07:57:17 |
| Access level: | database members | Released: | 2018-04-06 11:18:27 |
| 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:
| 29040 | R. Owen. 1876. Descriptive and Illustrated catalogue of the Fossil Reptilia of South Africa in the Collection of the British Museum of Natural History. [H. Sims/J. Camp] | |
| 29079 | H. G. Seeley. 1889. Researches on the Structure, Organisation, and Classification of the Fossil Reptilia. - VI. On the Anomodont Reptilia and Their Allies. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Series B 180:215-296 [J. Mueller/T. Liebrecht] |