farm Harries, Foutanie (331) (zone B/1) (Jurassic to of South Africa)

Where: Free State, South Africa (28.6° S, 28.2° E: paleocoordinates 42.7° S, 0.2° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

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

• top of "Red Beds" = Elliot Fm.

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by A. R. Walker in 1910

Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical,

Primary reference: R. Broom. 1911. On the dinosaurs of the Stormberg, South Africa. Annals of the South African Museum 7(4):291-308 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 36737: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 11.02.2004

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Saurischia -
Massospondylus harriesi n. sp., Gryponyx africanus n. gen. n. sp., Aetonyx palustris n. gen. n. sp.
Massospondylus harriesi n. sp. Broom 1911 prosauropod
SAM 3394
Gryponyx africanus n. gen. n. sp. Broom 1911 prosauropod
SAM 3357-3359
Aetonyx palustris n. gen. n. sp. Broom 1911 prosauropod
SAM 2678-2770; includes 1 specimen from Haughton 1924