Where: Free State, South Africa (29.0° S, 27.4° E: paleocoordinates 42.7° S, 0.9° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Upper Member (Elliot Formation), Hettangian to Hettangian (201.3 - 190.8 Ma)
• bones from "a distinctive horizon within the Elliot Formation" - within the "Red Beds" of the upper Elliot Fm.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: "floodplain"; concretionary, ferruginous, silty mudstone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by J. W. Kitching & Huma in 1980; reposited in the BPI
Collection methods: surface (float), surface (in situ), mechanical,
Primary reference: M. A. Raath. 1980. The theropod dinosaur Syntarsus (Saurischia: Podokesauridae) discovered in South Africa. South African Journal of Science 76(8):375-376 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 48391: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 17.03.2005
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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"Stormbergia dangershoeki" = Lesothosaurus diagnosticus1
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Osteichthyes | |
Tritylodon sp. Owen 1884 mammaliamorph | |
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