Also known as Doornplaats; Rust

Where: Eastern Cape, South Africa (32.1° S, 24.3° E: paleocoordinates 62.9° S, 28.4° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Dicynodon Assemblage other 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; Evans & van den Heever, 1987) 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 or Daptocephalus Assemblage Zone is late Wuchiapingian to Changhsingian on the basis of radioisotopic evidence (Rubidge et al. 2013, Geology)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; siliciclastic sediments

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by J. Kitching, A. T. Bremner in 1962 and later; reposited in the BPI

Collection methods: acetic,

• SAM = Iziko South African Museum, Cape Town

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 80216: authorized by Johannes Mueller, entered by Jana Dummasch on 09.04.2008, edited by Torsten Liebrecht, Richard Butler and Juan Benito Moreno

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