Where: Western Cape, South Africa (32.9° S, 21.2° E: paleocoordinates 59.1° S, 35.8° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Tapinocephalus Assemblage Zone other zone, Beaufort Group, Capitanian (264.3 - 259.5 Ma)

• Radioisotopic data constrains the likely age of the Tapinocephalus Zone to Capitanian (Rubidge et al. 2013).

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; siliciclastic sediments

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: SAM: South African Museum, Cape Town

Primary reference: M. J. Toerien. 1953. The evolution of the palate in South African Anomodontia and its classificatory significance. Palaeontologia Africana 1:49-117 [J. Fröbisch/M. Walther]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 176356: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Richard Butler on 08.02.2016, edited by Bethany Allen

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