Site 18a, Voisana (Jurassic to of South Africa)

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)

•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)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Ornithischia - Heterodontosauridae
Heterodontosaurus tucki Crompton and Charig 1962 heterodontosaurid
SAM-PK-K1334