Brak Leegte 297: Capitanian, South Africa
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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unclassified
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Eriphostoma microdon
Broom 1911
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1 specimen | |||||||||
| BP/1/7275 | ||||||||||
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Reptilia
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Pareiasauria indet.
(Seeley 1888)
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| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | South Africa | State/province: | Western Cape | County: | Beaufort West |
| Coordinates: | 32.3° South, 22.1° East (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 52.9° South, 27.6° West (Wright 2013) | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | stated in text | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| Period: | Permian | Epoch: | Guadalupian |
| Stage: | Capitanian | 10 m.y. bin: | Permian 4 |
| Key time interval: | Capitanian | Zone: | Pristerognathus Assemblage |
| Age range of interval: | 264.28 - 259.51 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | gray,blue siltstone |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Environment: | fluvial 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: BP, Evolutionary Studies Institute (formerly the Bernard Price Institute for Palaeontological Research), University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg | |
| Taxonomic list comments:BP/1/7275 also occurs in the uppermost Pristerognathus AZ in strata that yielded fossils of the dicynodonts Diictodon feliceps, Pristerodon mackayi and Endothiodon. Scylacosaurid and lycosuchid therocephalians – as well as a large gorgonopsian - were found within 30 m stratigraphically below the new specimen, and fragmentary pareiasaur remains were recovered from immediately above it. | |
Metadata
| Database number: | 176245 | ||
| Authorizer: | R. Butler | Enterer: | R. Butler |
| Modifier: | R. Butler | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2016-02-03 16:05:16 | Last modified: | 2025-02-22 15:12:02 |
| Access level: | database members | Released: | 2017-02-03 16:05:16 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC0 |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 57888. | C. F. Kammerer, R. M. H. Smith, M. O. Day and B. S. Rubidge. 2015. New information on the morphology and stratigraphic range of the mid‐Permian gorgonopsian Eriphostoma microdon Broom, 1911. Papers in Palaeontology [R. Butler/R. Butler] |