The first record of late Permian tetrapods from Namibia

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dc.contributor.authorMocke, Helke B
dc.contributor.authorKammerer, Christian F
dc.contributor.authorSmith, Roger M H
dc.contributor.authorMarsicano, Claudia A
dc.date.accessioned2023-11-23T08:12:09Z
dc.date.available2023-11-23T08:12:09Z
dc.date.issued2023
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dc.description.abstractThe entire Omingonde Formation in Namibia was previously assigned a Triassic age based on the fossil tetrapod fauna discovered southwest of theWaterberg Plateau. However, recently repatriated and newly collected material suggests that the lowermost part of the Omingonde Formation includes late Permian strata, equivalent in age to the upper Endothiodon Assemblage Zone of the South African Karoo Basin. In this study,we document the first record of late Permian tetrapod fossils from Namibia, and provide brief descriptions of a gorgonopsian skull collected at Mount Etjo in 1996 and the skull of a small dicynodont collected at the same site in 2019, referable to cf. Tropidostoma. This material confirms that there is need for better understanding of the stratigraphy of the Etjo Mountain area, in particular the position and nature of the unconformity between strata of the Permian Endothiodon and the Triassic Cynognathus assemblage zones.
dc.description.librarianJNC2023
dc.description.sponsorshipUniversidad de Buenos Aires Ciencia y Técnica (UBACyT 20020170100643) AGENCIA PICT-2019-01127 the Palaeontological Scientific Trust (PAST) University of the Witwatersrand.
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dc.identifier.issn2410-4418
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10539/37140
dc.journal.titlePalaeontologia africana
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherEvolutionary Studies Institute
dc.rightsCopyright 2023 the Authors. This is an open-access article published under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 Unported License (CC BY4.0). To view a copy of the license, please visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. This license permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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dc.subjectEndothiodon Assemblage Zone
dc.subjectbiostratigraphy
dc.subjectTropidostoma
dc.subjectgorgonopsian
dc.subjectLate Palaeozoic
dc.subjectsouthern Africa
dc.titleThe first record of late Permian tetrapods from Namibia
dc.typeArticle
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