Also known as Lanasaurus type

Where: Free State, South Africa (28.5° S, 28.6° E: paleocoordinates 42.8° S, 0.7° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

• "Red Beds" = Elliot Fm.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by C. Gow & J. Kitching in the 1970s; reposited in the BPI

Collection methods: mechanical,

Primary reference: C. E. Gow. 1975. A new heterodontosaurid from the Redbeds of South Africa showing clear evidence of tooth replacement. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 57:335-339 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 48828: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 30.03.2005

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