Where: Free State, South Africa (29.1° S, 27.4° E: paleocoordinates 42.9° S, 1.0° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Upper Member (Elliot Formation), Hettangian to Hettangian (201.3 - 190.8 Ma)
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Reposited in the BPI
Primary reference: J. W. Kitching and M. A. Raath. 1984. Fossils from the Elliot and Clarens Formations (Karoo Sequence) of the northeastern Cape, Orange Free State and Lesotho, and a suggested biozonation based on tetrapods. Palaeontologia Africana 25:111-125 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 75196: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 26.09.2007
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Reptilia | |
? Thecodontia indet. Owen 1859 archosaur | |
cf. Massospondylus sp. Owen 1854 sauropodomorph | |
Osteichthyes | |
Pachygenelus sp. Watson 1913 mammaliamorph |