Also known as Towerwater

Where: Western Cape, South Africa (32.1° S, 23.9° E: paleocoordinates 62.5° S, 28.8° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Daptocephalus Assemblage Zone other zone, Balfour Formation (Beaufort Group), Wuchiapingian to Wuchiapingian (259.9 - 252.2 Ma)

• Originally identified as "Cistecephalus zone". Kitching (1977) listed this occurrence as within the Daptocephalus zone, which is equivalent to the Dicynodon Assemblage Zone. Geographic and stratigraphic data suggest that the locality is in the Balfour Formation of the Beaufort Group (see Catuneanu et al., 2005, J. Afr. Earth Sci., 43, figs. 24, 25). The Dicynodon AZ is constrained as late Wuchiapingian to Changhsingian on the basis of radioisotopic data (Rubidge et al. 2013, Geology)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: "floodplain"; sandstone and red claystone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by P. C. Miller, A. S. Romer in 1929; reposited in the FMNH

Primary reference: E. C. Olson. 1936. Notes on the Skull of Youngina capensis Broom. Journal of Geology 44(4):523-533 [J. Mueller/T. Liebrecht]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 88342: authorized by Johannes Mueller, entered by Torsten Liebrecht on 08.04.2009, edited by Richard Butler

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