Mokkanametsong tracksite (zone B/2) (Jurassic to of Lesotho)

Also known as Moyeni, Mokanametsong

Where: Quthing, Lesotho (30.4° S, 27.7° E: paleocoordinates 44.1° S, 1.4° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

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

• "upper Red Beds"

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; red sandstone

• "pink sandstone, then red"

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression, trace

Collected by P. Ellenberger

Collection methods: surface (in situ), peel or thin section,

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: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 84072: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 16.09.2008

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Pseudosuchia - Batrachopodidae
"Suchopus bakoenaorum n. gen. n. sp." = Batrachopus bakoenaorum
"Suchopus bakoenaorum n. gen. n. sp." = Batrachopus bakoenaorum Ellenberger 1974 aetosaur
 Pseudosuchia - Chirotheriidae
Synaptichnium motutongense n. sp. Ellenberger 1974 archosaur
 Theropoda -
Trisauropodiscus superavipes n. sp. Ellenberger 1970 coelurosaur
 Theropoda - Grallatoridae
"Aetonychopus rapidus n. gen. n. sp." = Grallator rapidus, "Aetonychopus digitigradus n. sp." = Grallator digitigradus, "Platysauropus ingens" = Plastisauropus ingens, "Neotrisauropus deambulator" = Grallator deambulator, "Neotrisauropus mokanametsongensis n. sp." = Grallator mokanametsongensis
"Aetonychopus rapidus n. gen. n. sp." = Grallator rapidus Ellenberger 1972 theropod
"Aetonychopus digitigradus n. sp." = Grallator digitigradus Ellenberger 1972 theropod
"Platysauropus ingens" = Plastisauropus ingens Ellenberger 1970 theropod
"Neotrisauropus deambulator" = Grallator deambulator Ellenberger 1970 theropod
"Neotrisauropus mokanametsongensis n. sp." = Grallator mokanametsongensis Ellenberger 1974 theropod
trackways A1, A2, B1, B2, C1, D1, D2, AC, C2, E1, E2, AE, AF1, AF2
 Ornithischia - Moyenisauropodidae
"Moyenisauropus palmipes n. sp." = Anomoepus palmipes, "Masitisisauropodiscus fringilla n. sp." = Anomoepus fringilla, "Masitisisauropodiscus turdus n. gen. n. sp." = Anomoepus turda, "Masitisisauropezus minutus n. sp." = Anomoepus minutus, "Moyenisauropus levicauda n. sp." = Anomoepus scambus
"Moyenisauropus palmipes n. sp." = Anomoepus palmipes Ellenberger 1970 ornithopod
varieties angustus, exiguus (elevated to species)
"Masitisisauropodiscus fringilla n. sp." = Anomoepus fringilla Ellenberger 1974 ornithopod
trackways AZ1, AZ2
"Masitisisauropodiscus turdus n. gen. n. sp." = Anomoepus turda Ellenberger 1972 ornithopod
"Masitisisauropezus minutus n. sp." = Anomoepus minutus Ellenberger 1974 ornithopod
"Moyenisauropus levicauda n. sp." = Anomoepus scambus Hitchcock 1848 ornithopod
Moyenisauropodiscus perdiciforma
  -
Moyenisauropodiscus perdiciforma n. gen. n. sp. Ellenberger 1970
 Carnavia -
"Moyenisauropus minimus n. sp." = Masitisisauropezus minimus, Masitisisauropus angustus n. sp., Masitisisauropus exiguus n. sp.
"Moyenisauropus minimus n. sp." = Masitisisauropezus minimus Hitchcock 1862
Masitisisauropus angustus n. sp. Ellenberger 1972
Masitisisauropus exiguus n. sp. Ellenberger 1972