Masitisi-Cave (zone B/4) (Jurassic of Lesotho)

Also known as Masitise

Where: Quthing, Lesotho (30.4° S, 27.5° E: paleocoordinates 42.8° S, 4.3° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Clarens Formation (Stormberg Group), Pliensbachian (190.8 - 182.7 Ma)

• base of Cave Sandstone; zone B/4

•Bordy et al. 2020

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; red sandstone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Preservation: mold/impression, trace

Collected by P. Ellenberger

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

Primary reference: P. Ellenberger. 1970. Les niveaux paléontologiques de première apparition des mammifères primoridaux en Afrique du Sud et leur ichnologie. Establissement de zones stratigraphiques detaillees dans le Stormberg du Lesotho (Afrique du Sud) (Trias Supérieur à Jurassique) [The paleontological levels of the first appearance of primordial mammals in southern Africa and their ichnology. Establishment of detailed stratigraphic zones in the Stormberg of Lesotho (southern Africa) (Upper Triassic to Jurassic). In: S. H. Haughton (ed.), Second Symposium on Gondwana Stratigraphy and Paleontology, International Union of Geological Sciences. Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, Pretoria 343-370 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 84065: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 16.09.2008

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Gnathostomata
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Osteichthyes indet. bony fish
scale
Amphibia
  -
Lehahichnus coquinaris n. gen. n. sp.
Lehahichnus coquinaris n. gen. n. sp. Ellenberger 1970 tetrapod
3 types: A, B, C
Reptilia
 Theropoda - Grallatoridae
"Neotrisauropus lambereshei n. sp." = Grallator lambereshei
"Neotrisauropus lambereshei n. sp." = Grallator lambereshei Ellenberger 1970 theropod