farm Harries, Foutanie (331) (zone B/1) (Jurassic to of South Africa)

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
 Saurischia -
Gryponyx africanus n. gen. n. sp., Massospondylus harriesi n. sp., Aetonyx palustris n. gen. n. sp.
Gryponyx africanus n. gen. n. sp. Broom 1911 prosauropod
SAM 3357-3359
Massospondylus harriesi n. sp. Broom 1911 prosauropod
SAM 3394
Aetonyx palustris n. gen. n. sp. Broom 1911 prosauropod
SAM 2678-2770; includes 1 specimen from Haughton 1924