Farm Friesland West (371) (Triassic to of South Africa)

Where: Free State, South Africa (28.5° S, 28.5° E: paleocoordinates 48.6° S, 0.9° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

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

Primary reference: J. W. Kitching and M. A. Raath. 1984. Fossils from the Elliot and Clarens Formations (Karoo Sequence) of the northeastern Cape, Orange Free State and Lesotho, and a suggested biozonation based on tetrapods. Palaeontologia Africana 25:111-125 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 107062: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Richard Butler on 01.04.2011, edited by Matthew Carrano

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Taxonomic list

Amphibia
 Temnospondyli - Chigutisauridae
Chigutisauridae indet. Rusconi 1951 tetrapod
"capitosaur amphibian skull frags."
Reptilia
 Saurischia -
cf. Euskelosaurus sp. Huxley 1866 sauropodomorph