Also known as Iguanodonhoek, Iguanodon Hoek, Bushman's River
Where: Eastern Cape, South Africa (33.6° S, 26.2° E: paleocoordinates 44.8° S, 11.2° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Kirkwood Formation (Uitenhage Group), Berriasian to Berriasian (145.0 - 136.4 Ma)
• also called the "Wood Bed"
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; nodular, green, red claystone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: concretion
Collected by W. G. Atherstone, E. Schwarz in 1857, 1912; reposited in the BMNH
Collection methods: quarrying, surface (float), surface (in situ), mechanical,
• "This material was stored in the Albany Museum, Grahamstown, but was lost during the fire of 1940." ref 57283)
Primary reference: W. G. Atherstone. 1857. Geology of Uitenhage. The Eastern Province Monthly Magazine 1(10):518-532 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 45929: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 14.12.2004
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Dinosauria indet.2 dinosaur "a femur of one of the gigantic forms" (later interpreted as a humerus; ref 57283) and "a smaller form a little lower down"
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"Paranthodon owenii n. gen. n. sp." = Paranthodon africanus1
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