Also known as Beato 238

Where: Western Cape, South Africa (32.2° S, 21.6° E: paleocoordinates 60.5° S, 31.2° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

• "[...] middle of the Tropidostoma AZ [...] middle of the locally named Hoedemaker Member of the Teekloof Formation (Smith and Keyser, 1995), which we estimate to be late Middle Permian in age" (Sidor & Smith, 2007)

•In Botha et al. (2007) the Hoedemaker Member is said to be entirely Wuchiapingian in age. According to Catuneanu et al. (2005, J. Afr. Earth Sci., 43) the Hoedemaker is Late Capitanian to Early/Middle Wuchiapingian. Recent radioisotopic dates constrain the Tropidostoma AZ to Wuchiapingian.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: crevasse splay; gray, green siltstone and mudstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected in 1985, 1986

Primary reference: C. A. Sidor and R. M. H. Smith. 2007. A Second Burnetiamorph Therapsid from the Permian Teekloof Formation of South Africa and its Associated Fauna. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 27(2):420-430 [J. Mueller/T. Liebrecht]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 86285: authorized by Johannes Mueller, entered by Torsten Liebrecht on 27.01.2009

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