Where: Eastern Cape, South Africa (31.9° S, 24.9° E: paleocoordinates 64.3° S, 25.3° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Dicynodon other zone, Elandsberg Member (Balfour Formation), Changhsingian (254.2 - 252.2 Ma)

• An age assessment for the New Wapadsberg Pass assemblage is based on a comparison with the Australian palynostratigraphic zones which serve as the standard biostratigraphic classification for the southern hemisphere. The Wapadsberg Pass assemblage is placed in a stratigraphic position corresponding to the subzone APP601 of Price (1997) and in the basal part of the Protohaploxypinus microcorpus Zone (Mory and Backhouse, 1997) based on (1) the dominance of characteristic Late Permian pollen taxa (i.e., Protohaploxypinus and Striatopodocarpites), (2) subordinate numbers of pollen taxa that become dominant in latest Permian and Triassic palynofloras (Lunatisporites and Falcisporites), and (3) the absence of large numbers of (a)cavate spores. Overall, this correlation supports a Late Changhsingian (late Lopingian) age assignment that is in accordance with the megafloral record.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: dry floodplain; lithified, red, silty claystone and lithified siltstone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: adpression, original sporopollenin, replaced with carbon

Collection methods: bulk, hydrochloric, hydroflouric,

• Repository: Albany Museum, Grahamstown

Primary reference: R. Prevec, R. A. Gastaldo, J. Neveling, S. B. Reid, and C. V. Looy. 2010. An autochthonous glossopterid flora with latest Permian palynomorphs and its depositional setting in the Dicynodon Assemblage Zone of the southern Karoo Basin, South Africa. 292:391-408 [C. Looy/R. Owen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 119437: authorized by Cindy Looy, entered by Rodney Owen on 26.10.2011, edited by Matthew Clapham

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