7 km southwest of Sentinal Ranch homestead (Jurassic to of Zimbabwe)

Where: Matabeleland South, Zimbabwe (22.2° S, 29.5° E: paleocoordinates 37.4° S, 5.2° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Forest Sandstone Formation (Karoo Group), Hettangian to Hettangian (201.3 - 190.8 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; fine-grained, nodular sandstone and red sandstone

• "thin beds of nodular, fine-grained sandstone lying on pink sandstone and overlain by grey sandstone"

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Thompson in 1975

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

Primary reference: A. O. Thompson. 1975. The Karoo rocks in the Mazinga area, Beitbridge District. Rhodesia Geological Survey Short Report 40:1-79 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 65343: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 21.09.2006

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
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Reptilia indet. Laurenti 1768 reptile