Quaggas Fontein 250: Wuchiapingian, South Africa
collected by C. MacRae
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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unclassified
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Lobalopex mordax n. gen., n. sp.
Sidor et al. 2004
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1 individual | |||||||||
| CGP/1/61 (type); formerly misidentified as a Gorgonopsian | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | South Africa | State/province: | Northern Cape | County: | Victoria West (Ubuntu) |
| Coordinates: | 31.7° South, 22.5° East (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 50.5° South, 20.0° West (Wright 2013) | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on political unit | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| Period: | Permian | Epoch: | Lopingian |
| Stage: | Wuchiapingian | 10 m.y. bin: | Permian 4 |
| Key time interval: | Wuchiapingian | Other zone: | Tropidostoma Assemblage |
| Age range of interval: | 259.51 - 254.14 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Geological group: | Beaufort | Formation: | Teekloof | Member: | Hoedemaker |
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: " [...] Hoedemaker Member of the Teekloof Formation. The beds in this area contain fossils representative of the Tropidostoma Assemblage Zone" Recent radioisotopic dates constrain the Tropidostoma AZ to Wuchiapingian. | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | gray,red mudstone | ||
| Includes fossils? | Y | ||
| Lithology description: "gray and purple mudstone" | |||
| Environment: | terrestrial indet. | Tectonic setting: | foreland basin |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
| Preservation of anatomical detail: | good |
| Articulated whole bodies: | none |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | survey of museum collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
| Collectors: | C. MacRae |
Metadata
| Database number: | 86275 | ||
| Authorizer: | J. Mueller | Enterer: | T. Liebrecht |
| Modifier: | R. Butler | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2009-01-27 14:41:57 | Last modified: | 2025-02-22 15:12:02 |
| Access level: | authorizer only | Released: | 2012-01-27 14:41:57 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC0 |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 29071. | C. A. Sidor, J. A. Hopson, and A. W. Keyser. 2004. A New Burnetiamorph Therapsid from the Teekloof Formation, Permian of South Africa. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 24(4):938-950 [J. Mueller/T. Liebrecht] |