Also known as Algoasaurus type

Where: Eastern Cape, South Africa (33.8° S, 25.5° E: paleocoordinates 45.0° S, 12.0° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Kirkwood Formation (Uitenhage Group), Berriasian to Berriasian (145.0 - 132.9 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: fluvial; gray claystone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by R. Broom in 1903; reposited in the AMNH

Collection methods: salvage, quarrying, surface (in situ), mechanical,

• some bones rescued from quarrying operations, but "large numbers of the bones were made into bricks".

Primary reference: R. Broom. 1904. On the occurrence of an opisthocoelian dinosaur (Algoasaurus bauri) in the Cretaceous beds of South Africa. Geological Magazine, decade 5 1:445-447 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 59356: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 28.03.2006

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