Also known as Ladybrand
Where: Free State, South Africa (29.1° S, 27.3° E: paleocoordinates 42.8° S, 1.1° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Upper Member (Elliot Formation), Hettangian to Hettangian (201.3 - 190.8 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: lacustrine - small; lithology not reported
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Collected by J. W. Kitching; 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: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 75263: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 01.10.2007, edited by Richard Butler
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Amphibia | |
Chigutisauridae indet. Rusconi 1951 tetrapod BP/1/5406, fragments of skull and mandible, postcranial fragments
cf. Siderops sp. Warren and Hutchinson 1983 tetrapod BP/1/5092, partial skull and attached mandibular rami.
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Osteichthyes | |
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Branchiopoda | |
Conchostraca indet. Sars 1867 clam shrimp |