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)
• 16 metres below the lower Elliot/upper Elliot boundary, and 10.5 metres below the holotype specimen of Eocursor parvus
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: dry floodplain; red mudstone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected in 1994
Collection methods: mechanical,
• NM: National Museum, Bloemfontein
Primary reference: F. Knoll. 2004. Review of the tetrapod fauna of the "Lower Stormberg Group" of the main Karoo Basin (southern Africa): implication for the age of the Lower Elliot Formation. Bulletin de la Société Géologique de France 175(1):73-83 [R. Butler/R. Butler/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 106571: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Richard Butler on 26.03.2011, edited by Matthew Carrano
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