Dracovenator type, farm Upper Drumbo (BPi) (Jurassic to of South Africa)

Where: Eastern Cape, South Africa (30.8° S, 27.7° E: paleocoordinates 44.5° S, 1.7° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

• Upper Elliot Fm. dated as Hettangian by McPhee et al. (2017)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by J. W. Kitching; reposited in the BPI

Primary reference: A. M. Yates. 2005. A new theropod dinosaur from the Early Jurassic of South Africa and its implications for the early evolution of theropods. Palaeontologia Africana 41:105-122 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 75177: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 25.09.2007

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Theropoda -
Dracovenator regenti n. gen. n. sp.
Dracovenator regenti n. gen. n. sp. Yates 2005 neotheropod
BP/1/5243