Middle Teekloof Formation west of 24°E Uppermost Middleton Formation & lowermost Balfour Formation east of 24°E
Underlies
Daptocephalus Assemblage Zone
Overlies
Tropidostoma Assemblage Zone
Thickness
up to 984.252 ft (300.000 m)
Location
Region
Eastern, Northern & Western Cape
Country
South Africa
Extent
Karoo Basin
Type section
Named for
Cistecephalus
Named by
Robert Broom
Year defined
1906, 1909
The Cistecephalus Assemblage Zone is a tetrapod assemblage zone or biozone found in the Adelaide Subgroup of the Beaufort Group, a majorly fossiliferous and geologically important geological group of the Karoo Supergroup in South Africa.[1][2][3] This biozone has outcrops located in the Teekloof Formation north-west of Beaufort West in the Western Cape, in the upper Middleton and lower Balfour Formations respectively from Colesberg of the Northern Cape to east of Graaff-Reinet in the Eastern Cape. The Cistecephalus Assemblage Zone is one of eight biozones found in the Beaufort Group, and is considered to be Late Permian in age.[4]
The name of the biozone refers to Cistecephalus, a small, burrowing dicynodont therapsid. It is characterized by the presence of this species, known especially from the upper sections of this biozone, and the first appearance of the dicynodont Aulacephalodon.
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^Merrill, van der Walt; Michael, Day; Bruce, Rubidge; K., Cooper, Antony; Inge, Netterberg (December 2010). "A new GIS-based biozone map of the Beaufort Group (Karoo Supergroup), South Africa". Palaeontologia Africana. ISSN 0078-8554.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
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