Full 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
Belongs to Episcopopus according to C. A. Marsicano et al. 2014
See also Ellenberger 1970, Ellenberger 1974, Foster et al. 2025 and Olsen and Galton 1984
Sister taxa: none
Type specimen: 70 (casts SAM-PT-K10949; PECUoM 087 LES, 111 LES), a footprint. Its type locality is Moyeni tracksite (zone B/1), which is in a Hettangian/Sinemurian fine channel fill sandstone/sandstone in the Elliot Formation of Lesotho.
Ecology: amphibious carnivore
Distribution: found only at Moyeni tracksite (zone B/1)
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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