Where: Eastern Cape, South Africa (30.6° S, 27.4° E: paleocoordinates 44.1° S, 1.9° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

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

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

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; red siltstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by A. W. Crompton in 1966–1967

Collection methods: quarrying, surface (float), mechanical,

• SAM: Iziko South African Museum, Cape Town

•Discovered during the 1966–67 joint South African Museum, Yale University, British Museum (Natural History), University of London expedition

Primary reference: A. P. Santa Luca, A. W. Crompton, and A. J. Charig. 1976. A complete skeleton of the Late Triassic ornithischian Heterodontosaurus tucki. Nature 264(5574):324-328 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 85486: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 30.12.2008, edited by Richard Butler

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