Where: Eastern Cape, South Africa (30.6° S, 27.4° E: paleocoordinates 44.1° S, 1.9° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Upper Member (Elliot Formation), Hettangian to Hettangian (201.3 - 190.8 Ma)
• Upper Elliot Fm. dated as Hettangian by McPhee et al. (2017)
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•Bordy et al. 2020
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; red siltstone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by A. W. Crompton in 1966–1967
Collection methods: quarrying, surface (float), mechanical,
• SAM: Iziko South African Museum, Cape Town
•Discovered during the 1966–67 joint South African Museum, Yale University, British Museum (Natural History), University of London expedition
Primary reference: L. B. Porro, R. J. Butler, P. M. Barrett, S. Moore-Fay, and R. L. Abel. 2011. New heterodontosaurid specimens from the Lower Jurassic of southern Africa and the early ornithischian dinosaur radiation. Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 101:351-366 [R. Butler/R. Butler/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 224194: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 27.01.2022
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
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