Where: Free State, South Africa (29.2° S, 27.3° E: paleocoordinates 42.9° S, 1.1° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Upper Member (Elliot Formation), Hettangian to Hettangian (201.3 - 190.8 Ma)
• Originally interpreted by Butler et al. (2007) as from the lower Elliot Formation, of Late Triassic age, McPhee et al. (2017, APP) re-interpreted it as from the base of the upper Elliot Formation, of Early Jurassic age.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: dry floodplain; brown, red siltstone and fine-grained, intraclastic, argillaceous sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by R. M. H. Smith & D. B. Norman in 1993
Collection methods: mechanical,
Primary reference: F. Knoll. 2004. Review of the tetrapod fauna of the "Lower Stormberg Group" of the main Karoo Basin (southern Africa): implication for the age of the Lower Elliot Formation. Bulletin de la Société Géologique de France 175(1):73-83 [R. Butler/R. Butler/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 73887: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 11.07.2007
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Eocursor parvus n. gen. n. sp.
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