Where: Eastern Cape, South Africa (30.8° S, 27.0° E: paleocoordinates 67.2° S, 12.5° W)
• coordinate based on unpublished field data
When: Stormberg Group, Anisian (247.2 - 242.0 Ma)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithified, red shale
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by H. G. Seeley, W. G. Atherstone, T. Bain, A. Brown in 1889; reposited in the BMNH
Collection methods: surface (in situ),
Primary reference: H. G. Seeley. 1892. Contribution to a knowledge of the Saurischia of Europe and Africa. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London 48:188-191 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 163814: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 13.11.2014
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Erythrosuchus africanus Broom 1905 archosauromorph cervical vertebra, rib, jaw (but jaw has "Megalosaurus"-like teeth)
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