farm Damplaats (55), Ladybrand (Jurassic to of South Africa)

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

• sandstone is "indicative of flash-flood flow conditions in a small meandering river", but layer with specimen is from "an open semi-arid floodplain"
• "in the uppermost part of a 3 m-thick dark reddish brown massive siltstone just beneath the basal scour surface of a 1 m-thick fine-grained sandstone. Distinctive claystone-veneered lateral accretion surfaces within the sandstone display desiccation cracks and mudrock rip-up clasts"

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

Reptilia
 Ornithischia -
Eocursor parvus n. gen. n. sp.
Eocursor parvus n. gen. n. sp. Butler et al. 2007 ornithischian
erroneously listed as SAM-PK-K8027