Where: Niassa, Mozambique (12.5° S, 35.0° E: paleocoordinates 57.2° S, 14.1° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Cistecephalus Assemblage Zone zone, Wuchiapingian (259.9 - 254.2 Ma)

• Suggested to be correlated with the Cistecephalus Assemblage Zone of South Africa.

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•"The fossiliferous layer is equivalent to L10 from Borges et al.'s “Lunho series” and equivalent to the K5 division of Verniers et al."

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; concretionary, gray mudstone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: R. Castanhinha, R. Araújo, L. C. Júnior, K. D. Angielczyk, G. G. Martins, R. M. S. Martins, C. Chaouiya, F. Beckmann, and F. Wilde. 2014. Bringing Dicynodonts Back to Life: Paleobiology and Anatomy of a New Emydopoid Genus from the Upper Permian of Mozambique. PLoS ONE 9(4):e94720 [R. Butler/R. Butler]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 185745: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Richard Butler on 11.05.2017

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