Where: Quthing, Lesotho (30.3° S, 27.8° E: paleocoordinates 44.1° S, 1.4° 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 in 1966-1967; reposited in the BMNH
Collection methods: quarrying,
Primary reference: J. W. Kitching and M. A. Raath. 1984. Fossils from the Elliot and Clarens Formations (Karoo Sequence) of the northeastern Cape, Orange Free State and Lesotho, and a suggested biozonation based on tetrapods. Palaeontologia Africana 25:111-125 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 55340: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 11.10.2005
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Reptilia | |
"Stormbergia dangershoeki n. gen. n. sp." = Lesothosaurus diagnosticus
"Stormbergia dangershoeki n. gen. n. sp." = Lesothosaurus diagnosticus Galton 1978 ornithischian |