Bushmans River, Woodbury Farm (Cretaceous to of South Africa)

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

• "red and green clay unit"

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

Reptilia
 Dinosauria -
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"
 Ornithischia -
"Paranthodon owenii n. gen. n. sp." = Paranthodon africanus1
"Paranthodon owenii n. gen. n. sp." = Paranthodon africanus1 Broom 1912 ornithischian