Also known as Letsoanastad
Where: Free State, South Africa (28.5° S, 28.4° E: paleocoordinates 42.7° S, 0.5° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Upper Member (Elliot Formation), Hettangian to Hettangian (201.3 - 190.8 Ma)
• Red Beds; about 10 ft below Cave Sandstone (Clarens Fm.)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: mold/impression
Collected by A. Walker
Collection methods: quarrying, surface (float), surface (in situ), mechanical,
Primary reference: E. C. N. Van Hoepen. 1920. Contributions to the knowledge of the reptiles of the Karroo Formation. 6. Further dinosaurian material in the Transvaal Museum. Annals of the Transvaal Museum 7(2):93-141 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 36672: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 09.02.2004
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Reptilia | |
Massospondylus browni Seeley 1892 prosauropod |