Where: Eastern Cape, South Africa (32.6° S, 25.1° E: paleocoordinates 63.3° S, 29.5° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Tropidostoma and Cistecephalus Assemblage Zone zone, Middelton Formation (Beaufort Group), Wuchiapingian (259.9 - 254.2 Ma)

• Locality previously referred as "Endothiodon" zone, and cited as Cistecephalus AZ by Kitching 1977, before the definition of the Tropidostoma AZ (see Rubidge, 1995). Fossils coming from this unreliable area are cited as either Cistecephalus or Tropidostoma AZ by Kammerer et al., 2011.

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•Direct dates for the Tropidostoma and Cistecephalus Assemblage Zones from Rubidge, et al., 2013

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: J. W. Kitching. 1977. The distribution of the Karroo vertebrate fauna. Memoirs of the Bernard Price Institute for Palaeontological Research 1:1-131 [H. Sims/J. Camp]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 176830: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Juan Benito Moreno on 04.03.2016, edited by Bethany Allen

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