Where: South Africa (33.2° S, 20.8° E: paleocoordinates 58.9° S, 36.6° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Laingsburg Formation (Ecca Group), Capitanian (264.3 - 259.5 Ma)

Environment/lithology: basinal (siliceous); mudstone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Collected by Team of palaeontologists led by B. Oelofsen

Primary reference: H. Geertsema and D. E. van Dijk. 1999. The earliest known Palaeozoic ensiferan insect from Africa, Afroedischia oosthuizeni gen. et sp. nov. (Orthoptera: Oedischiidae). South African Journal of Science 95:229-230 [M. Clapham/J. Karr]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 146349: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Jered Karr on 22.06.2013

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