south of road, farm Mequatling (278) ("middle Elliot") (Jurassic to of South Africa)

Where: Free State, South Africa (29.0° S, 27.4° E: paleocoordinates 42.7° S, 0.9° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

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

• bones from "a distinctive horizon within the Elliot Formation" - within the "Red Beds" of the upper Elliot Fm.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: "floodplain"; concretionary, ferruginous, silty mudstone

• floodplain deposits
• sediments are "siltstones or silty mudstones", with some local lenticular sandstones; "the bones themselves are thickly encrusted by a nodulr iron-rich deposit"

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by J. W. Kitching & Huma in 1980; reposited in the BPI

Collection methods: surface (float), surface (in situ), mechanical,

Primary reference: M. A. Raath. 1980. The theropod dinosaur Syntarsus (Saurischia: Podokesauridae) discovered in South Africa. South African Journal of Science 76(8):375-376 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 48391: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 17.03.2005

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Taxonomic list

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Reptilia
 Ornithischia -
"Stormbergia dangershoeki" = Lesothosaurus diagnosticus1
"Stormbergia dangershoeki" = Lesothosaurus diagnosticus1 Galton 1978 ornithischian
BP/1/4885
 Theropoda -
Syntarsus sp.2
Syntarsus sp.2 Raath 1969 coelophysoid
 Saurischia - Massospondylidae
cf. Massospondylus sp.2
cf. Massospondylus sp.2 Owen 1854 sauropodomorph
Osteichthyes
 Therapsida - Tritheledontidae
Pachygenelus sp.2
Pachygenelus sp.2 Watson 1913 mammaliamorph
 Therapsida - Tritylodontidae
Tritylodon sp.
Tritylodon sp. Owen 1884 mammaliamorph
1Butler 2005; 2Kitching and Raath 1984