Where: Free State, South Africa (30.3° S, 25.9° E: paleocoordinates 65.1° S, 18.3° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• hand sample-level geographic resolution

When: Lystrosaurus Assemblage zone, Beaufort Group, Induan to Induan (252.2 - 247.2 Ma)

• No stratigraphic data are given in the primary reference. The geographic position of the locality (if correct) suggests that is is in an horizon equivalent to the Katberg or the Burgersdorp Fm. (undivided strata of the Tarkastad Subgroup; see map in fig. 24 in Catuneanu et al., 2005, Afr. J. Earth Sci. 43(1-3)) and within the Lystrosaurus Assemblage Zone (see map in fig. 1 in Rubidge et al., 1995, SACS Biostrat. Ser. 1). Furthermore, Cisneros (2008, Paleoworld 17(2)) states that "The occurrence of Procolophon in South Africa is restricted to the interval between the middle part of the Katberg Formation and the lowermost Burgersdorp Formation (Neveling, 2004; Smith and Botha, 2005; Botha and Smith, 2006)." Litho- and biostratigraphic data point to a Middle Induan to Lowest Olenekian age (see fig. 25 in Catuneanu et al., 2005).

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; siliciclastic sediments

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by H. S. Viljoen; reposited in the BMNH

Primary reference: H. G. Seeley. 1889. Researches on the Structure, Organisation, and Classification of the Fossil Reptilia. - VI. On the Anomodont Reptilia and Their Allies. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Series B 180:215-296 [J. Mueller/T. Liebrecht]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 94365: authorized by Johannes Mueller, entered by Torsten Liebrecht on 17.02.2010

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