Also known as Zwartskraal vertebrates, Zwartkraal; Rhemhoogte, Remhoogte

Where: Western Cape, South Africa (33.2° S, 22.5° E: paleocoordinates 60.3° S, 37.8° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Eodicynodon Assemblage zone, Abrahamskraal Formation (Beaufort Group), Wordian (266.9 - 264.3 Ma)

• "Upper Ecca (Lower Middle Permian) [...] " (Barry, 1974).

•Note: Today these beds are assigned to the Eodicynodon Assemblage Zone, belonging to the deepest part of the Abrahamskraal Fm. of the Beaufort Group and are regarded to be Wordian in age (see comments on stratigraphy in PBDB collection 94649, vertebrate locality Modderdrift, and references cited therein).

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: delta plain; mudstone and sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: concretion

Collected by R. Oosthuizen in 1964-1970

Collection methods: mechanical, acetic

• ROZ = "collection of Mr Roy Oosthuizen", today possibly reposited in the NMQR (National Museum Bloemfontein).

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•"With the exception of specimen no. 3, which was sectioned using the Croft Parallel Grinding method, all specimens were acid prepared using weak formic acid to remove the matrix." (Barry, 1976).

Primary reference: T. H. Barry. 1974. A New Dicynodont Ancestor from the Upper Ecca (Lower Middle Permian) of South Africa. Annals of the South African Museum 64:117-136 [J. Mueller/T. Liebrecht]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 94777: authorized by Johannes Mueller, entered by Torsten Liebrecht on 12.03.2010

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