Also known as Swalekranz

Where: Western Cape, South Africa (32.0° S, 23.8° E: paleocoordinates 62.4° S, 28.6° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

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

• Fossils come from the Daptocephalus or 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 constrained to late Wuchiapingian-Changhsingian on the basis of radioisotopic data (Rubidge et al. 2013, Geology).

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; green, calcareous mudstone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: concretion

Collected by J. Kitching in 1947; reposited in the BPI

Collection methods: mechanical, acetic,

Primary reference: C. E. Gow. 1972. The osteology and relationships of the Millerettidae (Reptilia: Cotylosauria). Journal of Zoology, London 167:219-264 [J. Mueller/J. Dummasch]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 80176: authorized by Johannes Mueller, entered by Jana Dummasch on 08.04.2008, edited by Richard Butler, Juan Benito Moreno and Bethany Allen

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