Also known as Buffels Kloof

Where: Eastern Cape, South Africa (31.6° S, 26.5° E)

• Paleocoordinates: 51.2° S, 8.5° W (Wright 2013)

• coordinate estimated from map

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Cynognathus subzone C other zone, Burgersdorp Formation (Beaufort Group), Anisian (246.7 - 241.5 Ma)

• 55 m above the base of Cynognathus Subzone C (Fig. 1) and 55 m below the base of the Bamboesberg Member of the Molteno Formation (total thickness for Subzone C is 110 m; Hancox et al., 2013).

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: "floodplain"; fine-grained, gray, green sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Michael Day in 2017; reposited in the BPI

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

Primary reference: C. F. Kammerer, P. A. Viglietti, P. J. Hancox, R. J. Butler, and J. N. Choiniere. 2019. A new kannemeyeriiform dicynodont (Ufudocyclops mukanelai, gen. et sp. nov.) from Subzone C of the Cynognathus Assemblage Zone, Triassic of South Africa, with implications for biostratigraphic correlation with other African Triassic faunas. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 39(2):e1596921 [S. Hellert/S. Hellert/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 221535: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 11.08.2021, edited by Kayleigh Long

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