Where: Quthing, Lesotho (31.3° S, 27.8° E: paleocoordinates 44.9° S, 2.0° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Upper Member (Elliot Formation), Hettangian to Hettangian (201.3 - 190.8 Ma)
• from the "Red Beds of the Stormberg Series" which are "generally supposed to be of Upper Triassic age." = upper Elliot Fm.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithified, red sandstone and poorly lithified, gray limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by K. A. Kermack & Mussett in 1963-1964
Collection methods: quarrying, chemical, mechanical,
Primary reference: R. A. Thulborn. 1970. The skull of Fabrosaurus australis, a Triassic ornithischian dinosaur. Palaeontology 13(3):414-432 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 28613: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 20.02.2003
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Reptilia | |
Lesothosaurus diagnosticus Galton 1978 ornithischian |