Holotype: SAM 1058 (The Welgevonden pareiasaur)

Locality: Welgevonden, Graaff Reinet District, Eastern Cape Province, South Africa.

Biostratigraphy: Cistecephalus zone or Daptocephalus zone.

Age: Tatarian Age, Lopingian Subepoch, Zechstein Epoch, Late Permian.

Material: Hundreds of fragments containing portions of skull, lower jaw, shoulder and pelvic girdls, both forelimbs and both hindlimbs, a cervical, 12 dorsal and 10 caudal vertebrae, ribs and osteoderms.