Chelmer spruit, Farm Chelmer (1) (Jurassic to of Zimbabwe)

Where: Matabeleland North, Zimbabwe (20.0° S, 28.5° E: paleocoordinates 35.0° S, 5.2° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Middle Member (Forest Sandstone Formation), Hettangian to Hettangian (201.3 - 190.8 Ma)

• Middle Division of formaiton; less than 100 ft below base of Karroo Basalts

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; concretionary sandstone and fine-grained, cherty/siliceous carbonate

• "The rocks are fine-grained sandstones cemented by calcium carbonate and containing rod- and root-like calcareous concretions. In places the calcareous cement is replaced by a secondary siliceous cement....a thin band of brick-red marl, flecked here and there with green, was found to be lying on the top of the sandstone" (Phaup 1932)

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by A. E. Phaup in 1931

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

Primary reference: G. Bond. 1955. A note on dinosaur remains from the Forest Sandstone (Upper Karroo). Occasional Papers of the National Museums of Southern Rhodesia 2(20):795-800 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 80186: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 08.04.2008

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Taxonomic list

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Reptilia
 Saurischia - Massospondylidae
Massospondylus sp.
Massospondylus sp. Owen 1854 sauropodomorph
NMSR 5216, 5218-5223