Also known as Leeuw Kloof, Leeuwkloof

Where: Western Cape, South Africa (31.9° S, 22.4° E: paleocoordinates 61.0° S, 30.2° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

• "Tropidostoma Assemblage Zone, middle Tatarian" (Modesto & Smith, 2001); "The new Youngina locality is [...] within a regionally extensive mudrock sequence (informally termed the Hoedemaker member) that forms part of the Teekloof Formation of the lower Beaufort Group (Adelaide Subgroup)." (Smith & Evans, 1995). The Tropidostoma AZ is Wuchiapingian according to Catuneanu et al. (2005, Afr. J. Earth Sci. 43) and is "previously known as the lower Cistecephalus Zone of Kitching (1977)." (Smith & Evans, 1995).

Environment/lithology: dry floodplain; claystone and siltstone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: permineralized

Collection methods: SAM = South African Museum, Cape Town

Primary reference: S. P. Modesto and R. M. H. Smith. 2001. A new Late Permian captorhinid reptile: a first record from the South African Karoo. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 21(3):405-409 [J. Mueller/T. Liebrecht]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 84714: authorized by Johannes Mueller, entered by Torsten Liebrecht on 07.11.2008, edited by Bethany Allen

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