Zastron (Triassic to of South Africa)

Where: Free State, South Africa (30.3° S, 27.1° E: paleocoordinates 49.3° S, 1.9° W)

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Elliot Formation (Stormberg Group), Norian to Norian (228.0 - 199.3 Ma)

• precise stratigraphic level unknown - could be either Upper or Lower Elliot

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by A. W. Keyser in 1936–1946; reposited in the BPI

Primary reference: A. Otero, E. Krupandan, D. Pol, A. Chinsamy, and J. Choiniere. 2015. A new basal sauropodiform from South Africa and the phylogenetic relationships of basal sauropodomorphs. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 174:589-634 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 170616: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 24.06.2015

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Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Saurischia -
Sefapanosaurus zastronensis n. gen. n. sp. Otero et al. 2015 sauropodomorph
BP/1/386, BP/1/7409–7455