Where: Illizi, Algeria (27.9° N, 9.8° E: paleocoordinates 9.2° S, 14.3° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Lower Sandstone Member (Lower Zarzaïtine Formation), Spathian to Spathian (251.3 - 242.0 Ma)

• Assemblage is from the base of the Lower Sandstone of the Lower Zarzaïtine. Dating of the occurrences is based upon vertebrate biostratigraphy, particularly comparisons to the Moenkopi Formation of Arizona

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: fluvial-lacustrine; sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Busson in the 1960s; reposited in the MNHN

Collection methods: surface (float), surface (in situ), mechanical,

Primary reference: N.-E. Jalil. 1999. Continental Permian and Triassic vertebrate localities from Algeria and Morocco and their stratigraphical correlations. Journal of African Earth Sciences 29(1):219-226 [R. Butler/R. Butler]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 107216: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Richard Butler on 03.04.2011

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