Significance:
Geological Formations:
Dicynodon and Lystrosaurus assemblage zones. Fish, amphibians, reptiles, therapsids and vertebrate burrows.Diverse terrestrial and freshwater tetrapods of Pristerognathus to Dicynodon Assemblage Zones (amphibians, true reptiles, synapsids – especially therapsids), palaeoniscoid fish, freshwater bivalves, trace fossils (including tetrapod trackways), sparse to rich assemblages of vascular plants (Glossopteris Flora, including spectacular petrified logs), insects
Deltaic and fluvial sequences of sandstone and green-grey mudstone.
Continental (fluvial, lacustrine) siliciclastic sediments, pedocretes (calcretes), minor tuffs
Mid Permian – Earliest Triassic
c. 266 – 250 Ma
Richest Permo-Triassic tetrapod fauna from Pangaea / Gondwana
Key evidence for evolution of mammalian characters among therapsids Continental record of Late Permian Mass Extinction Events (e.g. Bethulie)
Northern outcrop area mainly Dicynodon Assemblage Zone
