Where: Leribe, Lesotho (28.9° S, 28.0° E: paleocoordinates 41.7° S, 2.7° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Clarens Formation (Stormberg Group), Pliensbachian (190.8 - 182.7 Ma)
• Cave Sandstone
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•Age according to Bordy et al. 2021 for zones A7 and B1–B7
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; tabular, fine-grained, medium, yellow sandstone and green mudstone
• "The lowermost part of the conformably overlying Clarens Formation (Figure 1(b, 3a)) is the main track-bearing unit at Tsikoane. It comprises laterally continuous, cream-coloured, sheet-like, fine- to medium-grained sandstones that range in thickness from 0.1 to 1.5 m (Figure 3(a)). These track-bearing, tabular sandstones are horizontally laminated and interbedded with green mudstone films (drapes) and layers (<0.2 m thick) that preserve desiccation cracks especially in the south-eastern part of the ichnosite (Figure 3(g)). In the north-western part of the ichnosite, a localised upward-fining unit comprises massive, intraformational, mud-pebble conglomerates at the base that gives way to interbedded green mudstones and grey and cream-brown, horizontally laminated, tabular, fine-grained sandstones (Figure 3(a, h)). Distinct U-shaped structures disrupt the interbedded part of this well-bedded, upward-fining unit (Figure 3(h)). The rest of the Clarens Formation at the Tsikoane ichnosite (Figure 1(b, 3a)) is characterised by 1 to 5 m thick, medium- to fine-grained sandstones that are mostly massive and rarely cross-bedded."
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: cast, mold/impression, trace
Collected by Dieterlen, Dornan in the 1990s
Collection methods: surface (float), surface (in situ),
Primary reference: F. Ellenberger and P. Ellenberger. 1958. Principaux types de pistes de Vertébrés dans les couches du Stormberg au Basutoland (Afrique du Sud) (Note préliminaire) [Principal types of vertebrate prints in the Stormberg beds of Basutoland (South Africa) (preliminary note)]. Comptes Rendus de la Société géologique de France 1958:65-67 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 55996: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 10.11.2005
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
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| Reptilia |
| Theropoda - Grallatoridae |
cf. Eubrontes sp.1 Hitchcock 1845 theropod
Morphotypes III, IV, and possibly also Morphotype V
" cf. Grallator sp." = Grallator1 Hitchcock 1858 theropod
Morphotype I
" Kainotrisauropus morijiensis" = Grallator2 theropod
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