farm Damplaats (55), Blikanasaurus (Triassic to of South Africa)

Where: Free State, South Africa (29.2° S, 27.3° E: paleocoordinates 48.8° S, 0.9° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Lower Member (Elliot Formation), Norian to Norian (228.0 - 201.3 Ma)

• Uncertain stratigraphic level, but likely close to the top of the lower Elliot Formation

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by J. W. Kitching in 1984; reposited in the BPI

Collection methods: surface (float),

Primary reference: A. M. Yates. 2008. A second specimen of Blikanasaurus (Dinosauria: Sauropoda) and the biostratigraphy of the lower Elliot Formation. Palaeontologia africana 43:39-43 [R. Butler/R. Butler]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 106569: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Richard Butler on 26.03.2011

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Saurischia -
Sauropodomorpha indet. Huene 1932 sauropodomorph
BP/1/5271, additional postcranial material
Blikanasaurus cromptoni Galton and Van Heerden 1985 sauropodomorph
BP/1/5271a, right metatarsal I