Moyeni tracksite (zone B/1) (Jurassic to of Lesotho)

Where: Quthing, Lesotho (30.4° S, 27.7° E: paleocoordinates 44.1° S, 1.4° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

• "in the middle of the Red Beds"

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: fine channel fill; fine-grained, red sandstone and paleosol/pedogenic, nodular, green, white sandstone

• "inside bank of a meander loop, with the main trackway surface preserved on one of several scroll bars making up a low-angle point bar."
• "sandstone...greenish-white color, intercalated among the first red sands of the upper Stormberg facies". "sandstone surface...ripple-marked...algal-matted..."

•"one of several fine-grained sandstone beds that emanate from the top of a 4 m-thick sandstone body and interfinger with overlying mudrocks...Mudrocks immediately overlying the track-bearing sandstone are uncharacteristically olive-green...the color change is almost certainly the result of contact metamorphism from a nearby dolerite sill and does not have any paleoenvironmental significance."

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: cast, trace

Collected by P. Ellenberger in 1963

Collection methods: bulk, quarrying, surface (in situ), peel or thin section,

Primary reference: F. Ellenberger, P. Ellenberger, J. Fabre and C. Mendrez. 1963. Deux nouvelles dalles à pistes de Vertébrés fossiles découvertes au Basutoland (Afrique du Sud) [Two new sites of fossil vertebrate prints discovered in Basutoland (South Africa)]. Comptes Rendus de la Société géologique de France 1963:315-317 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 56026: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 10.11.2005

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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unclassified
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? Hoploparida indet.1, cf. Homosiroidea meandrica3
Amphibia
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Amphibiopodiscus saltator n. gen. n. sp.1
Amphibiopodiscus saltator n. gen. n. sp.1 Ellenberger 1970 tetrapod
 Temnospondyli -
Episcopopus ventrosus n. gen. n. sp.1
Episcopopus ventrosus n. gen. n. sp.1 Ellenberger 1970 tetrapod
Mammalia
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Eotetrapodiscus moyenensis n. sp.1, Eotetrapodiscus cursor n. sp.1
Eotetrapodiscus moyenensis n. sp.1 Ellenberger 1970 mammal
trackways A, B, C on small slab
Eotetrapodiscus cursor n. sp.1 Ellenberger 1970 mammal
Reptilia
 Theropoda - Grallatoridae
aff. Eubrontes sp., "Neotrisauropus deambulator n. sp." = Grallator deambulator1, Plastisauropus ingens n. gen. n. sp.2
aff. Eubrontes sp. Hitchcock 1845 theropod
"or Grallator"
"Neotrisauropus deambulator n. sp." = Grallator deambulator1 Ellenberger 1970 theropod
or Sauropus
Plastisauropus ingens n. gen. n. sp.2 Ellenberger 1970 theropod
trackways G1, G2
 Ornithischia - Moyenisauropodidae
"Moyenisauropus palmipes" = Anomoepus palmipes1, "Moyenisauropus dodai n. sp." = Anomoepus scambus2, "Moyenisauropus natator n. sp." = Anomoepus scambus1, "Moyenisauropus vermivorus n. sp." = Anomoepus scambus1, "Moyenisauropus natatilis n. sp." = Anomoepus scambus2, "Moyenisauropus minor n. sp." = Anomoepus scambus1, "Moyenisauropus longicauda n. sp." = Anomoepus scambus2
"Moyenisauropus palmipes" = Anomoepus palmipes1 Ellenberger 1970 ornithopod
"Moyenisauropus dodai n. sp." = Anomoepus scambus2 Hitchcock 1848 ornithopod
"Moyenisauropus natator n. sp." = Anomoepus scambus1 Hitchcock 1848 ornithopod
varieties jejunus, mosebetsii
"Moyenisauropus vermivorus n. sp." = Anomoepus scambus1 Hitchcock 1848 ornithopod
variety mendrezi
"Moyenisauropus natatilis n. sp." = Anomoepus scambus2 Hitchcock 1848 ornithopod
"Moyenisauropus minor n. sp." = Anomoepus scambus1 Hitchcock 1848 ornithopod
variety fabri
"Moyenisauropus longicauda n. sp." = Anomoepus scambus2 Hitchcock 1848 ornithopod
"Piste V"
 Pseudosuchia -
Chirotherioidea indet.3
Chirotherioidea indet.3 Huene 1954 archosaur
Skolekichnus coprophagus
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Skolekichnus coprophagus n. gen. n. sp.2
Skolekichnus coprophagus n. gen. n. sp.2 Ellenberger 1974
1Ellenberger 1970; 2Ellenberger 1974; 3Smith et al. 2009