Where: Northern Cape, South Africa (31.2° S, 22.3° E: paleocoordinates 60.9° S, 28.3° W)

• coordinate stated in text

When: Tapinocephalus Assemblage other zone, Abrahamskraal Formation (Beaufort Group), Lopingian (259.9 - 252.2 Ma)

• The specimen was collected 90 m from the base of the Abrahamskraal Formation on the farm Bastardsfontein (22.15.00E 31.12.00S) in the Carnavon District, Northern Cape Province, South Africa.

•The specimen is assigned to the Tapinocephalus Assemblage Zone (sensu Rubidge, 1995; also see Rubidge, 2005).

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: delta plain; sandstone and mudstone

Size class: macrofossils

• BP/1/5737 is the smallest known individual of C. cluveri, and consists of a skull that is nearly complete but strongly flattened dorsoventrally.

Collected by S. Modesto and B. Rubidge

Collection methods: quarrying, surface (in situ), mechanical,

• BP, Bernard Price Institute for Palaeontological Research, Johannesburg, South Africa

Primary reference: K. D. Angielczyk and B. S. Rubidge. 2009. The Permian dicynodont Colobodectes cluveri (Therapsida, Anomodontia), with notes on its ontogeny and stratigraphic range in the Karoo Basin, South Africa. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 29(4):1162-1173 [E. Vlachos/F. Aspromonte]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 232553: authorized by Evangelos Vlachos, entered by Franco Aspromonte on 05.12.2023

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