Also known as Gigantoscelus type
Where: Limpopo, South Africa (23.8° S, 28.3° E: paleocoordinates 38.4° S, 3.0° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Springbok Flats Member (Bushveld Sandstone Formation), Hettangian to Hettangian (201.3 - 190.8 Ma)
• Previously reported as Late Triassic in age, but considered equivalent to the Early Jurassic Clarens Formation of southern South Africa (e.g. Smith et al. 1993. J. African Earth Sciences 16: 160)
• member-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected in 1916
Primary reference: E. C. N. Van Hoepen. 1916. De ouderdom der Transvaalsche Karroolagen [The age of the Transvaal Karoo beds]. Verhandelingen van het Geologisch-Mijnbouwkundig Genootschap voor Nederland en Koloniƫn. Geologische Serie 3:107-117 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 36734: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 11.02.2004
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Reptilia | |
Gigantoscelus molengraaffi n. gen. n. sp.
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