Where: Matabeleland North, Zimbabwe (19.9° S, 28.9° E: paleocoordinates 35.1° S, 5.7° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Forest Sandstone Formation (Karoo Group), Hettangian to Hettangian (201.3 - 190.8 Ma)
• "no more than" 100 ft below base of Karroo Basalts
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; white sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected in 1916
Collection methods: surface (float),
Primary reference: H. B. Maufe. 1916. (Discovery of dinosaurian remains in the Forest Sandstones of Southern Rhodesia). Transactions of the Geological Society of South Africa 17(Proceeding):xxxiii-xxxiv [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 35296: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 25.11.2003
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
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