Where: Northern Cape, South Africa (31.4° S, 23.9° E: paleocoordinates 62.3° S, 27.4° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

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

• Dicynodon or Daptocephalus 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

Collection methods: RC, Rubidge Collection, Wellwood

Primary reference: D. S. Sigogneau-Russell. 1989. Theriodontia I: Phthinosuchia, Biarmosuchia, Eotitanosuchia, Gorgonopsia. Encyclopedia of Paleoherpetology [R. Butler/R. Butler/R. Butler]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 178871: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Richard Butler on 19.05.2016

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