Where: Western Cape, South Africa (33.1° S, 21.6° E: paleocoordinates 59.5° S, 38.0° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Eodicynodon other zone, Abrahamskraal Formation (Beaufort Group), Wordian (266.9 - 264.3 Ma)
• The specimen was found 1062 m above the Ecca–Beaufort contact, which is 498 m above the lowest continuous maroon mudrock bed of the Beaufort Group
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; mudstone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by C. Dube in 2002; reposited in the BPI
Collection methods: mechanical,
Primary reference: Z. A. Jinnah and B. Rubidge. 2007. A double-tusked dicynodont and its biostratigraphic significance. South African Journal of Science 103:51-53 [R. Butler/R. Butler]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 176321: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Richard Butler on 08.02.2016
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
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