Aliwal North bridge tracksite, Rouxville (Triassic of South Africa)

Where: Free State, South Africa (30.7° S, 26.7° E: paleocoordinates 67.3° S, 9.0° W)

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Beaufort Group, Middle Triassic (247.2 - 237.0 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; green sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: trace

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

Primary reference: P. Ellenberger. 1972. Contribution à la classification des Pistes de Vertébrés du Trias: Les types du Stormberg d’Afrique du Sud (I) [Contribution to the classification of Triassic vertebrate footprints: the types from the Stormberg of South Africa (I)]. Palaeovertebrata Mem. Ext.(1972):1-152 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 206547: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 19.11.2019

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Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Saurischia -
Rotodactylopus archaeus n. gen. n. sp.
Rotodactylopus archaeus n. gen. n. sp. Ellenberger 1970 prosauropod