Also known as Ha Falatsa, HF1

Where: Maseru, Lesotho (30.4° S, 27.6° E: paleocoordinates 51.0° S, 1.5° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Lower Member (Elliot Formation), Norian (228.0 - 208.5 Ma)

• "The Ha Falatsa site yielded a maximum depositional age of 209.6 ± 1.4 Ma"

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithified, green sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: cast, trace

Collected by Ellenberger

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

Primary reference: P. Ellenberger. 1970. Les niveaux paléontologiques de première apparition des mammifères primoridaux en Afrique du Sud et leur ichnologie. Establissement de zones stratigraphiques detaillees dans le Stormberg du Lesotho (Afrique du Sud) (Trias Supérieur à Jurassique) [The paleontological levels of the first appearance of primordial mammals in southern Africa and their ichnology. Establishment of detailed stratigraphic zones in the Stormberg of Lesotho (southern Africa) (Upper Triassic to Jurassic). In: S. H. Haughton (ed.), Second Symposium on Gondwana Stratigraphy and Paleontology, International Union of Geological Sciences. Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, Pretoria 343-370 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 149751: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 24.08.2013

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