Paleontology of the Blaauwater 67 and 65 Farms, South Africa: Testing the Daptocephalus/Lystrosaurus Biozone Boundary in a Stratigraphic Framework

• Published in: PALAIOS
• Main Authors: Gastaldo, Roberta, Neveling, Johann, Looy, Cindy V., Bamford, Marion K., Kamo, Sandra L., Geissman, John W.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: SEPM-Society for Sedimentary Geology 2017
• Subjects: Geology; Stratigraphic—Permian; Prince Charles Mountains (Antarctica); Karoo Basin (Lesotho and South Africa); Extinction (Biology); Landscapes; Antarctica; Climate; Paleontology; Stratigraphic—Triassic; Burrows; Prince Charles Mountains; Antarc*
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10735.1/6006

Vertebrate paleontologists have proposed a model for the terrestrial end-Permian event in the Karoo Basin, South Africa. The scenario envisions vegetational collapse that resulted in a phased extinction of vertebrate taxa in the uppermost Daptocephalus Assemblage Zone and overlying Lystrosaurus Asse...