Also known as Bloupoort

Where: Western Cape, South Africa (32.0° S, 23.8° E: paleocoordinates 62.4° S, 28.6° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Daptocephalus Assemblage Zone other zone, Beaufort Group, Wuchiapingian to Wuchiapingian (259.9 - 252.2 Ma)

• Daptocephalus or Dicynodon Assemblage Zone is constrained as late Wuchiapingian to Changhsingian on the basis of radioisotopic data (Rubidge et al. 2013, Geology)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; siliciclastic sediments

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the BPI

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 178802: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Richard Butler on 16.05.2016

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