Where: Eastern Cape, South Africa (30.9° S, 26.9° E: paleocoordinates 50.1° S, 2.6° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Lower Member (Elliot Formation), Norian to Norian (228.0 - 201.3 Ma)
• Approximately 10–15 m above the Elliot-Molteno contact at the base of the lower Elliot Formation
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: "floodplain"; brown, gray mudstone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected in 2003; reposited in the BPI
Primary reference: B. W. McPhee, J. N. Choiniere, A. M. Yates and P. A. Viglietti. 2015. A second species of Eucnemesaurus Van Hoepen, 1920 (Dinosauria, Sauropodomorpha): new information on the diversity and evolution of the sauropodomorph fauna of South Africa's lower Elliot Formation (latest Triassic). Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 35(5):e980504:1-24 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 172834: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Philip Mannion on 27.08.2015
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Eucnemesaurus entaxonis n. sp.
Eucnemesaurus entaxonis n. sp. McPhee et al. 2015 sauropodomorph BP/1/6234 - holotype (posterior- most dorsal vertebrae, sacral vertebrae, and the anterior portion of the tail; partial right ilium; partial pubic apron; left ischium; right femur and fragments of the left; distal epipodium; and almost complete right pes)
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