Where: Eastern Cape, South Africa (31.8° S, 24.2° E: paleocoordinates 62.6° S, 27.9° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Dicynodon other zone, Balfour Formation (Beaufort Group), Wuchiapingian to Wuchiapingian (259.9 - 252.2 Ma)
• "Although initially considered by Broom (1923) to come from the Lystrosaurus Zone, the beds exposed in this area have more recently been considered to be those of the underlying Dicynodon Assemblage Zone, and thus Late Permian in age (Kitching, 1977, 1995)".
•Lithostratigraphy is from correlation chart in Catuneanu et al. (2005, p. 237, J. Afr. Earth Sci. 43).
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; siliciclastic sediments
Size class: macrofossils
Reposited in the BMNH
Primary reference: B. S. Rubidge and C. A. Sidor. 2002. On the Cranial Morphology of the Basal Therapsids Burnetia and Proburnetia (Therapsida: Burnetiidae). Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 22(2):257-267 [J. Mueller/T. Liebrecht]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 86258: authorized by Johannes Mueller, entered by Torsten Liebrecht on 27.01.2009, edited by Richard Butler
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Burnetia mirabilis n. gen. n. sp.
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