Where: Free State, South Africa (27.2° S, 28.9° E: paleocoordinates 41.7° S, 1.7° E)
• coordinate based on political unit
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Upper Member (Elliot Formation), Hettangian to Hettangian (201.3 - 190.8 Ma)
• Massospondylus Assemblage Zone
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by J. Kitching in 1978
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: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 230711: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 14.07.2023
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Reptilia | |
Sauropodomorpha indet. Huene 1932 sauropodomorph |