farm Voyizane (SAM) (Jurassic to of South Africa)

Also known as Voisana

Where: Eastern Cape, South Africa (30.6° S, 27.4° E: paleocoordinates 44.1° S, 1.9° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

• upper Elliot Fm., Massospondylus range zone

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithified, ferruginous sandstone

• "an extremely hard iron-rich sandstone matrix and many of the bone surfaces are encrusted with iron oxide"

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by C. E. Gow in 1966

Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical,

Primary reference: J. W. Kitching and M. A. Raath. 1984. Fossils from the Elliot and Clarens Formations (Karoo Sequence) of the northeastern Cape, Orange Free State and Lesotho, and a suggested biozonation based on tetrapods. Palaeontologia Africana 25:111-125 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 47032: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 01.02.2005

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Taxonomic list

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unclassified
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Proosauropoda indet.
Proosauropoda indet.
"prosauropod remains"
Reptilia
 Saurischia - Massospondylidae
Massospondylus sp.1, Massospondylus kaalae n. sp.2
Massospondylus sp.1 Owen 1854 sauropodomorph
Massospondylus kaalae n. sp.2 Barrett 2009 sauropodomorph
"prosauropod remains"
1Barrett 2004; 2Barrett 2009