Botsabelo (Triassic to of Lesotho)

Where: Maseru, Lesotho (29.3° S, 27.5° E: paleocoordinates 49.0° S, 0.8° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

• "Zone A/3 and A/5" of Ellenberger (1970)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Ellenberger

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: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 107170: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Richard Butler on 01.04.2011

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Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Saurischia -
cf. Melanorosaurus sp. Haughton 1924 sauropodomorph
Amphibia
 Temnospondyli -
Temnospondyli indet. tetrapod
"amphibian remains"