Where: Quthing, Lesotho (30.3° S, 27.8° E: paleocoordinates 44.1° S, 1.4° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Upper Member (Elliot Formation), Hettangian to Hettangian (201.3 - 190.8 Ma)
• "upper Red Beds" of Upper Elliot Fm.; zone B/2
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; fine-grained, red sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: mold/impression, trace
Collected by P. Ellenberger
Collection methods: surface (in situ),
Primary reference: P. Ellenberger. 1970. Les niveaux paléontologiques de première apparition des mammifères primoridaux en Afrique du Sud et leur ichnologie. Establissement de zones stratigraphiques detaillees dans le Stormberg du Lesotho (Afrique du Sud) (Trias Supérieur à Jurassique) [The paleontological levels of the first appearance of primordial mammals in southern Africa and their ichnology. Establishment of detailed stratigraphic zones in the Stormberg of Lesotho (southern Africa) (Upper Triassic to Jurassic). In: S. H. Haughton (ed.), Second Symposium on Gondwana Stratigraphy and Paleontology, International Union of Geological Sciences. Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, Pretoria 343-370 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 84071: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 16.09.2008
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Mammalia | |
"Acropentapodiscus ginsburgi n. sp." = Ameghinichnus ginsburgi
"Acropentapodiscus ginsburgi n. sp." = Ameghinichnus ginsburgi Ellenberger 1970 mammal | |
Microtetrapodiscus longiforma | |
Microtetrapodiscus longiforma n. gen. n. sp.
Microtetrapodiscus longiforma n. gen. n. sp. Ellenberger 1970 | |
Microtetrapodiscus breviforma | |
Microtetrapodiscus breviforma n. sp. Ellenberger 1970 |