Where: Matabeleland North, Zimbabwe (20.0° S, 28.4° E)
• Paleocoordinates: 34.8° S, 20.2° E (Wright 2013)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Upper Member (Forest Sandstone Formation), Hettangian to Hettangian (201.3 - 190.8 Ma)
• "Upper Division" of the Forest Sandstone, 50-100 ft below base of Karroo Basalts
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: eolian; white sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by T. Mossop, J. Attridge, M. Raath in 1952–1953
Collection methods: quarrying, surface (float), surface (in situ),
Primary reference: G. Bond. 1955. A note on dinosaur remains from the Forest Sandstone (Upper Karroo). Occasional Papers of the National Museums of Southern Rhodesia 2(20):795-800 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 57184: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Kaitlin Maguire on 08.12.2005
Creative Commons license: CC0 (CC0)
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