Paballong, Mount Fletcher (UCL) (Jurassic to of South Africa)

Where: Eastern Cape, South Africa (30.4° S, 28.5° E: paleocoordinates 44.5° S, 0.6° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

• upper part of Elliot Formation

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; red sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by K. A. Kermack in 1961-1962

• Thulborn claims this was collected over winter 1960-61 but Kermack indicates 1961-62. It is from the same locality as the holotype, but as it was collected some 40 years later and not from an established quarry, it is retained here as a distinct collection.

Primary reference: K. A. Kermack. 1963. Vertebrate fossils from Basutoland. Proceedings of the Geological Society of London 1603:1-2 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 69696: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 01.03.2007

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Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Ornithischia - Heterodontosauridae
Lycorhinus angustidens Haughton 1924 heterodontosaurid
UCL A.100