Where: Muchinga, Zambia (12.2° S, 32.2° E: paleocoordinates 55.4° S, 10.3° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Upper Member (Madumabisa Mudstone Formation), Wuchiapingian (259.9 - 254.2 Ma)

• "The upper Madumabisa Mudstone Formation in this area preserves vertebrate assemblages equivalent to the upper Cistecephalus and lower Daptocephalus AZs of the

•Karoo Basin, both of which are considered Lopingian (late Permian, Wuchiapingian) in age. Although our understanding of Madumabisa biostratigraphy is still in its early development, we believe the type came from strata equivalent to the uppermost Cistecephalus AZ."

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; mudstone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: A. K. Huttenlocker and C. A. Sidor. 2020. A Basal Nonmammaliaform Cynodont from the Permian of Zambia and the Origins of Mammalian Endocranial and Postcranial Anatomy. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology e1827413 [E. Dunne/E. Dunne/P. Mannion]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 215349: authorized by Emma Dunne, entered by Emma Dunne on 10.11.2020

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