Also known as "Viool's Drift"

Where: Northern Cape, South Africa (28.8° S, 17.6° E: paleocoordinates 60.0° S, 51.6° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Lower Dwyka Shales Formation (Dwyka Group), Gzhelian (303.7 - 298.9 Ma)

• Warmbad basin

Environment/lithology: lithified, concretionary, conglomeratic carbonate

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: I. R. McLachlan and A. Anderson. 1973. A review of the evidence for marine conditions in Southern Africa during Dwyka times. Palaeontologia Africana 15:37-64 [E. Dunne/S. Fasey]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 230203: authorized by Emma Dunne, entered by Sophie Fasey on 23.05.2023

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