Sauropod Quarry, farm Spion Kop 932 (BPI) (Jurassic to of South Africa)

Also known as Spioenkop, Spionkop, SQ

Where: Free State, South Africa (28.5° S, 27.8° E: paleocoordinates 42.4° S, 0.1° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Upper Member (Elliot Formation), Hettangian to Hettangian (201.3 - 190.8 Ma)

• Upper Elliot Fm. dated as Hettangian (McPhee et al., 2017)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coarse channel fill; bioturbated, coarse-grained, sandy siltstone and lenticular, fine-grained sandstone

• semi arid environment, described as "incipient paleosol", with the deposit representing "the fill of a low-energy, cut-off channel"
• "an upwardly-fining lens of sand"

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collected in 2004-2007; reposited in the BPI

Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical,

Primary reference: A. M. Yates, M. Bonnan, and J. Neveling. 2007. A new diverse dinosaur assemblage from the Early Jurassic of South Africa. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 27(3):169A [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/O. Alfaro]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 76191: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 15.11.2007, edited by Philip Mannion

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Taxonomic list

• "bioturbated bonebed" but no other fossils described
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Reptilia
 Saurischia -
Arcusaurus pereirabdalorum n. gen. n. sp.2, Pulanesaura eocollum n. gen. n. sp.1
Arcusaurus pereirabdalorum n. gen. n. sp.2 Yates et al. 2011 sauropodomorph
small form
Pulanesaura eocollum n. gen. n. sp.1 McPhee et al. 2015 sauropod
"sauropod B", "closer to Eusauropoda"
1McPhee et al. 2015; 2Yates et al. 2011