Kubake tracksite (zone B/1) (Jurassic to of Lesotho)

Where: Mohale's Hoek, Lesotho (30.2° S, 27.5° E: paleocoordinates 43.8° S, 1.6° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

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

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; hematitic sandstone

• "limonitic sand"

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression, trace

Collected by P. Ellenberger

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

Primary reference: P. Ellenberger. 1974. Contribution à la classification des pistes de Vertébrés du Trias: les types du Stormberg d'Afrique du Sud (IIème partie: Le Stormberg superieur - I. Le biome de la zone B/1 ou niveau de Moyeni: ses biocénoses) [Contribution to the classification of the vertebrate tracks of the Triassic: the types from the Stormberg of South Africa (2nd part: The upper Stormberg - I. The biome of zone B/1 or Moyeni level: its biocoenoses]. Palaeovertebrata Mém. Ext.(1974):1-147 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 149703: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 21.08.2013

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
  -
Reptilia
 Ornithischia - Moyenisauropodidae
"Moyenisauropus vermivorus" = Anomoepus scambus, "Moyenisauropus natator" = Anomoepus scambus
"Moyenisauropus vermivorus" = Anomoepus scambus Hitchcock 1848 ornithopod
trackways J-L
"Moyenisauropus natator" = Anomoepus scambus Hitchcock 1848 ornithopod
trackways B-F, M, N
 Theropoda - Grallatoridae
Plastisauropus cf. ingens Ellenberger 1970 theropod
 Saurischia -
Neotrisauropus cf. minor Ellenberger 1974 saurischian
"piste A"