A dicynodont trackway from the Cistecephalus Assemblage Zone in the Karoo, East of Graaff-Reinet, South Africa

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dc.contributor.authorde Klerk, William J
dc.date.accessioned2015-01-09T12:26:25Z
dc.date.available2015-01-09T12:26:25Z
dc.date.issued2002
dc.description.abstractThis paper reports a partially exposed late Permian palaeosurface with preserved vertebrate tracks at the "Asante Sana" private game reserve in the vicinity of Petersburg, 46km east of Graaff-Reinet. Excavation of the palaeosurface over an area of 34m2 revealed clear footprints and trackways of six large tetrapods that walked in a westerly direction across a semi-consolidated muddy substrate in the distal floodplain area of a large fluvial system. Clear heteropodous impressions of the footpads and individual toes and claws are preserved as concave epirelief moulds. It is concluded that these fossil tracks were made by a group of therapsids, specifically a group of large dicynodonts, possibly Aulacephalodon. The tracks are here assigned to the ichnospecies Dicynodontipus icelsi sp. nov. A continuous trackway and numerous less distinct individual prints and markings made by smaller tetrapods are also preserved on the palaeosurface. It is probable that these tracks were left by Diictodon, a small common dicynodont of the time.en_ZA
dc.description.sponsorshipPalaeo-Anthropology Scientific Trust; French Embassy in South Africa; Co-operation and Cultural Serviceen_ZA
dc.identifier.issn0078-8554
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10539/16345
dc.language.isoenen_ZA
dc.publisherBernard Price Institute for Palaeontological Researchen_ZA
dc.subjectKaroo Basinen_ZA
dc.subjectpalaeoichnologyen_ZA
dc.subjectLate Permianen_ZA
dc.subjectfootprintsen_ZA
dc.subjecttrackwaysen_ZA
dc.subjecttherapsiden_ZA
dc.subjectdicynodonten_ZA
dc.subjectDicynodontipus icelsien_ZA
dc.subjectAulacephaladonen_ZA
dc.subjectDiictidonen_ZA
dc.titleA dicynodont trackway from the Cistecephalus Assemblage Zone in the Karoo, East of Graaff-Reinet, South Africaen_ZA
dc.typeArticleen_ZA
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