Also known as Mazelspoort, Maselspoort

Where: Free State, South Africa (29.0° S, 26.4° E: paleocoordinates 63.1° S, 20.6° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

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

• "Kitching (1977) listed the type of C. helmoedi in his entry for Kranskraal, and stated that the stratigraphic section on the farm is highly attenuated with the rocks exposed referable to his Cistecephalus and/or Daptocephalus zones. In current terms, this would correspond to the Normandien Formation, and would represent the lower Daptocephalus Assemblage Zone (AZ) of Viglietti et al. (2016), which is Lopingian in age." (Angielczyk & Kammerer 2017)

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•Maximum date for the zone from Rubidge et al. (2013; Geology).

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Robert Broom

Primary reference: R. Broom. 1937. A further contribution to our knowledge of the fossil reptiles of the Karroo. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 107(3):299-318 [R. Butler/R. Butler]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 179328: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Juan Benito Moreno on 13.06.2016

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