Paratetrasauropus seakensis Ellenberger 1970 (crocodilian)

Reptilia - Loricata

Alternative combinations: Brachychirotherium seakensis, Tetrasauropus seakensis

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 Paratetrasauropus according to S. D'Orazi Porchetti and U. Nicosia 2007

See also Ellenberger 1970, Ellenberger 1972, Olsen and Galton 1984 and Thulborn 1990

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: LES 037 1, a footprint. Its type locality is Seaka tracksite (zone A/3), which is in a Hettangian/Sinemurian terrestrial sandstone in the Elliot Formation of Lesotho.

Ecology: carnivore

Distribution: found only at Seaka tracksite (zone A/3)

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