Where: Northern Cape, South Africa (31.4° S, 23.9° E: paleocoordinates 61.9° S, 28.1° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Cistecephalus Assemblage Zone other zone, Beaufort Group, Wuchiapingian (259.9 - 254.2 Ma)

• Cistecephalus Assemblage Zone is dated as Wuchiapingian on the basis of radioisotopic data (Rubidge et al. 2013, Geology)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Kitching; reposited in the BPI

Primary reference: A. S. Brink and J. W. Kitching. 1953. Studies on new specimens of the Gorgonopsia. Palaeontologia Africana 1:1-28 [R. Butler/R. Butler]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 178478: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Richard Butler on 04.05.2016

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