farm Vastrap (804) (Upper Elliot) (Jurassic to of South Africa)

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

• "playa lake"

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

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Taxonomic list

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Osteichthyes
 Dipnoi - Ceratodontidae
cf. Ceratodus sp.
cf. Ceratodus sp. Agassiz 1838 lungfish
tooth plates & partial skeletons
Amphibia
 Temnospondyli - Chigutisauridae
Chigutisauridae indet., cf. Siderops sp.
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.
Branchiopoda
 Diplostraca -
Conchostraca indet.
Conchostraca indet. Sars 1867 clam shrimp