Broken Slopes (793), Farm Vastrap ("middle" Elliot) (Jurassic to of South Africa)

Where: Free State, South Africa (29.1° S, 27.3° E: paleocoordinates 42.8° S, 1.1° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Upper Member (Elliot Formation), Hettangian to Hettangian (201.3 - 190.8 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

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 107097: 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
BP/1/5111, weathered large fragments of skull with attached mandible, neural arches, centra, interclavicle fragment, partial ribs
Reptilia
 Saurischia - Massospondylidae
cf. Massospondylus sp. Owen 1854 sauropodomorph
Branchiopoda
 Diplostraca -