Where: Northern Cape, South Africa (31.7° S, 22.5° E: paleocoordinates 60.9° S, 29.6° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Tropidostoma Assemblage other zone, Hoedemaker Member (Teekloof Formation), Wuchiapingian (259.9 - 254.2 Ma)

• " [...] Hoedemaker Member of the Teekloof Formation. The beds in this area contain fossils representative of the Tropidostoma Assemblage Zone" Recent radioisotopic dates constrain the Tropidostoma AZ to Wuchiapingian.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; gray, red mudstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by C. MacRae

Primary reference: C. A. Sidor, J. A. Hopson, and A. W. Keyser. 2004. A New Burnetiamorph Therapsid from the Teekloof Formation, Permian of South Africa. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 24(4):938-950 [J. Mueller/T. Liebrecht]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 86275: authorized by Johannes Mueller, entered by Torsten Liebrecht on 27.01.2009

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