Delportsrivier, Jansenville (Permian of South Africa)

Where: Eastern Cape, South Africa (33.0° S, 22.0° E: paleocoordinates 59.8° S, 37.7° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Abrahamskraal Formation (Beaufort Group), Wordian (266.9 - 264.3 Ma)

• "lower Abrahamskraal Formation" Kammerer & Rubidge (2022)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: "floodplain"; mudstone and carbonate

• Locality is "in calcareous rocks of the lower Abrahamskraal Fm."

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: C. F. Kammerer and B. S. Rubidge. 2022. The earliest gorgonopsians from the Karoo Basin of South Africa. Journal of African Earth Sciences 194(104631) [E. Dunne/E. Dunne/E. Dunne]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 226245: authorized by Emma Dunne, entered by Emma Dunne on 27.06.2022

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