Kwezana, Victoria East: Wuchiapingian, South Africa

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Anomodontia - Cryptodontidae
Dicynodon platyfrons n. sp. Broom 1932
Broom 1932
ELM unnumbered, a dorsoventrally crushed partial skull, now lost
see common names

Geography
Country:South Africa State/province:Eastern Cape County:Victoria East
Coordinates: 32.8° South, 26.8° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:64.7° South, 28.8° 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: 256.65 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:178053
Authorizer:R. Butler Enterer:J. Benito Moreno
Research group:vertebrate
Created:2016-04-15 10:53:48 Last modified:2016-04-15 10:53:48
Access level:database members Released:2018-04-15 10:53:48
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:

27212 R. Broom. 1932. The mammal-like reptiles of South Africa and the Origin of Mammals [H. Sims/J. Camp]