Where: Eastern Cape, South Africa (32.5° S, 25.1° E: paleocoordinates 63.7° S, 28.7° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Beaufort Group, Wuchiapingian to Wuchiapingian (259.9 - 252.2 Ma)
• Probably represents the Tropidostoma, Cistecephalus or Daptocephalus Assemblage Zone, constrained as Wuchiapingian-Changhsingian on the basis of radioisotopic dates (Rubidge et al. 2013. Geology).
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: C. F. Kammerer. 2016. Systematics of the Rubidgeinae (Therapsida: Gorgonopsia). PeerJ 4:e1608 [R. Butler/R. Butler]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 178272: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Richard Butler on 29.04.2016
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