Where: Matabeleland North, Zimbabwe (16.2° S, 30.1° E: paleocoordinates 32.1° S, 8.7° E)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Forest Sandstone Formation (Karoo Group), Hettangian to Hettangian (201.3 - 190.8 Ma)
• originally called the "Maura River beds"
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by M. A. Raath & Lovemore in 1968
Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical,
Primary reference: G. Bond. 1972. Milestones in Rhodesian paleontology (1901–1971). Transactions of the Geological Society of South Africa 75(2):151-158 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 50824: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 23.05.2005
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Reptilia | |
"Syntarsus rhodesiensis" = Megapnosaurus rhodesiensis
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Massospondylus harriesi Broom 1911 prosauropod |