Where: Western Cape, South Africa (32.2° S, 23.9° E: paleocoordinates 62.6° S, 28.9° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

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

• It is said that the fossils come from the "Daptocephalus zone" (Gow, 1972) 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 Daptocephalus or Dicynodon Zone is constrained as late Wuchiapingian to Changsinghian on the basis of radioisotopic data (Rubidge et al. 2013, Geology)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; siliciclastic sediments

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: concretion

Collected by J. Kitching in 1950; reposited in the BPI

Collection methods: acetic,

Primary reference: C. E. Gow. 1972. The osteology and relationships of the Millerettidae (Reptilia: Cotylosauria). Journal of Zoology, London 167:219-264 [J. Mueller/J. Dummasch]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 89859: authorized by Johannes Mueller, entered by Torsten Liebrecht on 17.06.2009, edited by Richard Butler

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