Where: Quthing, Lesotho (30.4° S, 27.7° E: paleocoordinates 44.1° S, 1.5° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

• From the "A/7" zone of Ellenberger (1970). Steyer & Damiani (2005) consider this horizon to be of uncertain Late Triassic or Early Jurassic age, but other authors have assigned this to the Upper Elliot Formation (e.g. Kitching & Raath 1984. Pal afr. 25:111-125; Knoll. 2005. Bull. Soc. geol. Fr. 176:81-91)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: fluvial-lacustrine; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by B. Battail, P. Ellenberger, L. Ginsburg in 1970; reposited in the MNHN

Collection methods: surface (float),

Primary reference: J. S. Steyer and R. Damiani. 2005. A giant brachyopoid temnospondyl from the Upper Triassic or Lower Jurassic of Lesotho. Bulletin de la Societe Geologique de France 176(3):243-248 [R. Butler/R. Butler]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 107133: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Richard Butler on 01.04.2011

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