Marc's Quarry, farm Spion Kop 932 (BPI) (Jurassic to of South Africa)

Also known as MQ, Spioenkop

Where: Free State, South Africa (28.5° S, 27.8° E: paleocoordinates 42.4° S, 0.1° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: "channel"; bioturbated, sandy mudstone and lenticular, fine-grained sandstone

• semi arid environment, described as "incipient paleosol"
• "an upwardly-fining lens of sand"

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collected in 2004-2007; reposited in the BPI

Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical,

Primary reference: A. M. Yates, P. J. Hancox, and B. S. Rubidge. 2004. First record of a sauropod dinosaur from the upper Elliot Formation (Early Jurassic) of South Africa. South African Journal of Science 100:504-506 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 47031: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 01.02.2005, edited by John Alroy

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Taxonomic list

• "bioturbated bonebed" but no other fossils described in detail
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Reptilia
 Pterosauria -
Pterosauria indet.1
 Ornithischia -
Thyreophora indet.1
Thyreophora indet.1 ornithischian
scutes
 Theropoda -
Theropoda indet.1
Theropoda indet.1 theropod
large teeth
 Theropoda - Coelophysidae
Coelophysidae indet.2
Coelophysidae indet.2 Paul 1988 coelophysoid
 Saurischia -
Sauropodomorpha indet.2, Aardonyx celestae n. gen. n. sp.2
Sauropodomorpha indet.2 sauropodomorph
"sauropod A", "similar to Jinshanosaurus"; femur, BP/1/6186
Aardonyx celestae n. gen. n. sp.2 Yates et al. 2010 sauropodomorph
"melanorosaurid", large form
1Blackbeard and Yates 2007; 2Yates et al. 2010