Where: Free State, South Africa (28.6° S, 28.2° E: paleocoordinates 42.7° S, 0.2° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Upper Member (Elliot Formation), Hettangian to Hettangian (201.3 - 190.8 Ma)
• top of "Red Beds" = Elliot Fm.
• member-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by A. R. Walker in 1910
Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical,
Primary reference: R. Broom. 1911. On the dinosaurs of the Stormberg, South Africa. Annals of the South African Museum 7(4):291-308 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 36737: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 11.02.2004
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Reptilia | |
Aetonyx palustris n. gen. n. sp. Broom 1911 prosauropod SAM 2678-2770; includes 1 specimen from Haughton 1924
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