Where: Malawi (9.9° S, 33.8° E: paleocoordinates 54.4° S, 14.8° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Chiweta Formation, Wuchiapingian (259.9 - 254.2 Ma)

• Chiweta Beds are assigned based on the tetrapod fauna to the Tropidostoma and Cistecephalus zones of the Beaufort Series (Wuchiapingian Stage of the Late Permian) (Catuneanu et al., 2005).

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: fluvial-lacustrine; lithified, micaceous, gray, green shale

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Collected by Henry Drummond in 1888

Primary reference: T. R. Jones. 1890. On some fossils from central Africa. The Geological Magazine, New Series, Decade III 7:553-558 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 208779: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 10.04.2020

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