Eodicynodon Assemblage Zone
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Stratigraphy of the Karoo Supergroup in the Karoo Basin | ||||
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Period | Group | Formation west of 24°E | Formation east of 24°E | Assemblage Zone |
Jurassic | Drakensberg | Hiatus | Drakensberg | |
Stormberg | Clarens | |||
Triassic | Elliot | |||
Molteno | ||||
Beaufort | ||||
Burgersdorp | Cynognathus | |||
Katberg | Lystrosaurus | |||
Balfour | ||||
Permian | Dicynodon | |||
Teekloof | ||||
Cistecephalus | ||||
Middleton | ||||
Tropidostoma | ||||
Pristerognathus | ||||
Abrahams-Kraal | Koonap | |||
Tapinocephalus | ||||
Eodicynodon | ||||
Ecca | Waterford | Waterford | ||
Tierberg / Fort Brown | Fort Brown | |||
Laingsburg / Ripon | Ripon | |||
Collingham | Collingham | |||
White Hill | White Hill | |||
Prince Albert | Prince Albert | |||
Carboniferous | Dwyka | Elandsvlei | Elandsvlei | |
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The Eodicynodon Assemblage Zone is a geological stratum and a faunal zone of the Beaufort Group, of the South African Karoo. The name refers to Eodicynodon, a small herbivore and the earliest genus of dicynodont, whose fossils have been found in that structure.
Contents
Paleobiota
Synapsids
†Anomodonts
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Notes Uncertain or tentative taxa are in small text; |
Genus | Species | Location | Stratigraphic position | Material | Notes | Images |
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Eodicynodon | E. oosthuizeni | A basal Dicynodont | ||||
Patranomodon | P. nyaphulii | An Anomodont |
†Dinocephalians
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Notes Uncertain or tentative taxa are in small text; |
Genus | Species | Location | Stratigraphic position | Material | Notes | Images |
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Australosyodon | A. nyaphuli | An Anteosaurid Dinocephalian | ||||
Tapinocaninus | T. pamelae | A Tapinocephalid Dinocephalian |
†Therocephalians
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Notes Uncertain or tentative taxa are in small text; |
Genus | Species | Location | Stratigraphic position | Material | Notes | Images |
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Glanosuchus | G. macrops | A Scylacosaurid Therocephalian |
References
External links
- South Africa page on Palaeocritti
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