Where: Eastern Cape, South Africa (30.8° S, 27.7° E: paleocoordinates 44.5° S, 1.7° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Upper Member (Elliot Formation), Hettangian to Hettangian (201.3 - 190.8 Ma)
• Upper Elliot Fm. dated as Hettangian by McPhee et al. (2017)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by J. W. Kitching; reposited in the BPI
Primary reference: A. M. Yates. 2005. A new theropod dinosaur from the Early Jurassic of South Africa and its implications for the early evolution of theropods. Palaeontologia Africana 41:105-122 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 75177: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 25.09.2007
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Reptilia | |
Dracovenator regenti n. gen. n. sp.
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