Where: Free State, South Africa (28.4° S, 28.5° E: paleocoordinates 48.5° S, 1.0° E)
• coordinate stated in text
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Lower Member (Elliot Formation), Norian to Norian (228.0 - 201.3 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Reposited in the BPI
Primary reference: J. W. Kitching and M. A. Raath. 1984. Fossils from the Elliot and Clarens Formations (Karoo Sequence) of the northeastern Cape, Orange Free State and Lesotho, and a suggested biozonation based on tetrapods. Palaeontologia Africana 25:111-125 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 107138: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Richard Butler on 01.04.2011
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Amphibia | |
"Capitosauridae indet." = Mastodonsauridae
"Capitosauridae indet." = Mastodonsauridae Lydekker 1885 tetrapod "capitosaur amphibian skull fragments"
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Reptilia | |
cf. Euskelosaurus sp. Huxley 1866 sauropodomorph |