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
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Amphibia | |
Chigutisauridae indet. Rusconi 1951 tetrapod BP/1/5111, weathered large fragments of skull with attached mandible, neural arches, centra, interclavicle fragment, partial ribs
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Reptilia | |
cf. Massospondylus sp. Owen 1854 sauropodomorph | |
Branchiopoda | |
Conchostraca indet. clam shrimp |