Also known as BMNH-SAM
Where: Eastern Cape, South Africa (30.6° S, 27.6° E: paleocoordinates 50.1° S, 1.5° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Lower Member (Elliot Formation), Norian to Norian (228.0 - 201.3 Ma)
• lowermost part of lower Elliot Formation
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by C. E. Gow in 1962
Collection methods: quarrying, chemical, mechanical, acetic,
• "The specimen was prepared by immersion in 12% acetic acid after all exposed bone surfaces had been coated with perspex dissolved in chloroform"
Primary reference: Anonymous. 1964. Dinosaur evolution concepts revisted. Scientific South Africa 1:337 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 35295: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 25.11.2003
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Blikanasaurus cromptoni n. gen. n. sp.
Blikanasaurus cromptoni n. gen. n. sp. Galton and Van Heerden 1985 sauropodomorph "BĂȘte de Blikana"
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