farm Dangershoek (Jurassic to of South Africa)

Also known as Dangers Hoek

Where: Eastern Cape, South Africa (30.6° S, 27.8° E: paleocoordinates 44.3° S, 1.5° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Upper Member (Elliot Formation), Hettangian to Hettangian (201.3 - 190.8 Ma)

• "Red Beds" of upper Elliot Fm.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by C. E. Gow

Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical,

Primary reference: A. P. Santa Luca. 1984. Postcranial remains of Fabrosauridae (Reptilia: Ornithischia) from the Stormberg of southern Africa. Palaeontologia Africana 25:151-180 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/J. Head]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 45796: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 02.12.2004

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Ornithischia - Fabrosauridae
Fabrosauridae indet. Galton 1972 ornithischian
 Ornithischia -
"Stormbergia dangershoeki n. gen. n. sp." = Lesothosaurus diagnosticus1
"Stormbergia dangershoeki n. gen. n. sp." = Lesothosaurus diagnosticus1 Galton 1978 ornithischian
SAM-PK-K1105
 Neornithischia -
cf. Stormbergia sp.1 Butler 2005 ornithischian
SAM-PK-K1107
 Saurischia - Massospondylidae
Massospondylus sp.2 Owen 1854 sauropodomorph