Also known as Houd Constant, Katbos, Houdconstant

Where: Eastern Cape, South Africa (32.0° S, 24.2° E: paleocoordinates 62.8° S, 28.4° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Dicynodon Assemblage Zone zone, Balfour Formation (Beaufort Group), Wuchiapingian to Wuchiapingian (259.9 - 252.2 Ma)

• It is said that the fossils come from the "Daptocephalus zone" (Gow, 1972) which is equivalent to the Dicynodon Assemblage Zone. Geographic and stratigraphic data suggest that the locality is in the Balfour Formation of the Beaufort Group (see Catuneanu et al., 2005, J. Afr. Earth Sci., 43, figs. 24, 25). The Dicynodon AZ is late Wuchiapingian to Changsinghian according to recent radioisoptic dating.

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•Direct maximum date for the Dicynodon Assemblage Zone from Rubidge et al., 2013.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; green, calcareous mudstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by J. Kitching in 1945; reposited in the BPI

Primary reference: R. Broom and J. T. Robinson. 1948. Two new cotylosaurian reptiles. Annals of the Transvaal Museum 21:51-54 [R. Butler/R. Butler]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 80174: authorized by Johannes Mueller, entered by Jana Dummasch on 08.04.2008, edited by Richard Butler and Juan Benito Moreno

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