Where: Eastern Cape, South Africa (32.2° S, 26.1° E: paleocoordinates 66.6° S, 20.9° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• hand sample-level geographic resolution

When: Lystrosaurus Assemblage zone, Katberg Formation (Beaufort Group), Olenekian (251.2 - 247.2 Ma)

• " [...] Lystrosaurus assemblage Zone, Katberg Formation, Beaufort Group (lowermost Triassic)." (Modesto et al., 2002).

•Botha et al. (2007) note that this occurrence is from the Olenekian part of the Lystrosaurus AZ.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithified quartzite

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by G. Groenewald

Collection methods: mechanical,

• GHG = Council for Geosciences, Pretoria

Primary reference: S.P. Modesto, R. J. Damiani, and H.-D. Sues. 2002. A reappraisal of Coletta seca, a basal procolophonoid reptile from the Lower Triassic of South Africa. Palaeontology 45(5):883-895 [J. Mueller/J. Dummasch]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 78686: authorized by Johannes Mueller, entered by Jana Dummasch on 14.02.2008

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