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)

• 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 Changhsingian according to recent radioisotopic dates

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; green, calcareous mudstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by J. Kitching in 1956; reposited in the BPI

Collection methods: mechanical,

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 80178: authorized by Johannes Mueller, entered by Jana Dummasch on 08.04.2008, edited by Torsten Liebrecht, Richard Butler, Emma Dunne and Bethany Allen

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