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
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Sefapanosaurus zastronensis n. gen. n. sp.
Sefapanosaurus zastronensis n. gen. n. sp. Otero et al. 2015 sauropodomorph BP/1/386, BP/1/7409–7455
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