Also known as Maphutseng Bone Bed, Euskelosaurus cemetery
Where: Mohale's Hoek, Lesotho (30.2° S, 27.5° E: paleocoordinates 50.9° S, 1.5° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Lower Member (Elliot Formation), Norian (228.0 - 208.5 Ma)
• base of red beds, with "typical Molteno facies"; ca. 20 m below Maphutseng tracksite
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: lacustrine; lenticular sandstone and claystone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by M. Motsoane, P. Ellenberger, A. Crompton in 1955-Feb 1956, 1959, 1963, 1970
Collection methods: quarrying, surface (float), surface (in situ),
Primary reference: P. Ellenberger. 1955. Note préliminaire sur les pistes et les restes osseux de Vertébrés du Basutoland (Afrique du Sud) [Prelimiinary note on the trackways and bony remains of vertebrates from Basutoland (southern Africa)]. Comptes Rendus des Séances de l'Academie des Sciences, Paris 240:889-891 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 56018: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 10.11.2005
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gymnospermopsida | |
Dicroidium sp.1 Gothan 1912 | |
Reptilia | |
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Kholumolumo ellenbergerorum n. gen. n. sp.2
Kholumolumo ellenbergerorum n. gen. n. sp.2 Peyre de Fabrègues and Allain 2020 sauropodomorph "near Melanorosaurus or Plateosauravus"
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