Spioenkop farm (Triassic to of South Africa)

Also known as Heelbo

Where: Free State, South Africa (28.5° S, 27.9° E: paleocoordinates 48.4° S, 0.3° 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; gray siltstone

• "dark purple-grey silts"

Size class: macrofossils

Collected in 2003; reposited in the BPI

Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical,

Primary reference: A. M. Yates. 2007. Solving a dinosaurian puzzle: the identity of Aliwalia rex Galton. Historical Biology 19(1):93-123 [R. Butler/R. Butler/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 107176: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Richard Butler on 02.04.2011

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Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Saurischia - Riojasauridae
Eucnemesaurus fortis Van Hoepen 1920 sauropodomorph
BP/1/6107, 6110-6115, 6220, postcranial material