Where: Eastern Cape, South Africa (30.6° S, 26.4° E: paleocoordinates 65.9° S, 17.3° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Lystrosaurus Assemblage Zone other zone, Katberg Formation (Beaufort Group), Olenekian (251.2 - 247.2 Ma)

• Uppermost part of the Katberg Formation, Lystrosaurus Assemblage Zone, Early Triassic. Specimen comes from the "uppermost part of the Lystrosaurus Zone, in an impoverished, 'intermediate' biozone, once referred to as the Procolophon Zone" (Damiani 2004). Considered early Olenekian in age by Damiani (2004)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: CGP, Council for Geoscience, Pretoria

Primary reference: R. Damiani, J. Neveling, J. Hancox and B. Rubidge. 2000. First trematosaurid temnospondyl from the Lystrosaurus Assemblage Zone of South Africa and its biostratigraphic implications. Geological Magazine 137(6):659-665 [R. Butler/R. Butler]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 145503: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Richard Butler on 04.06.2013

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