Where: Eastern, Zambia (10.8° S, 33.2° E: paleocoordinates 54.9° S, 13.1° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Cistecephalus Assemblage zone, Madumabisa Mudstone Formation (Beaufort Group), Wuchiapingian (259.9 - 254.2 Ma)

• "Northern (Chikonta) Group [...] Lowermost Cistecephalus Zone" (Lee et al., 1997); chrono- and lithostratigraphy according to correlation chart on p. 240 in Catuneanu et al. (2005, J. African Earth Sci. 43, pp. 211-253)

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; mudstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by J. W. Kitching in 1960, 1961

Primary reference: M. S. Y. Lee, C. E. Gow, and J. W. Kitching. 1997. Anatomy and relationships of the pareiasaur Pareiasuchus nasicornis from the Upper Permian of Zambia. Palaeontology 40(2):307-335 [J. Mueller/T. Liebrecht/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 86257: authorized by Johannes Mueller, entered by Torsten Liebrecht on 27.01.2009, edited by Richard Butler

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