Farm Mequatlingsnek (315) ("middle" Elliot) (Jurassic to of South Africa)

Where: Free State, South Africa (29.0° S, 27.3° E)

• Paleocoordinates: 43.0° S, 15.3° E (Wright 2013)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Upper Member (Elliot Formation), Hettangian to Hettangian (201.3 - 190.8 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the BPI

Primary reference: J. W. Kitching and M. A. Raath. 1984. Fossils from the Elliot and Clarens Formations (Karoo Sequence) of the northeastern Cape, Orange Free State and Lesotho, and a suggested biozonation based on tetrapods. Palaeontologia Africana 25:111-125 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 232313: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 08.11.2023

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Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Saurischia - Massospondylidae
cf. Massospondylus sp. Owen 1854 sauropodomorph
Osteichthyes
 Therapsida - Tritheledontidae
Pachygenelus sp. Watson 1913 mammaliamorph