Seaka-Falatsa tracksite (zone A/3): Norian, Lesotho
collected by Ellenberger

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Anomodontia
Pentasauropus motlejoi n. sp. Ellenberger 1970
1 individual
synonym of Pentasauropus incredibilis
Reptilia - Chirotheriidae
Sauropodopus antiquus n. gen., n. sp. Ellenberger 1970
1 individual
Paratrisauropus mendrezi n. gen., n. sp. Ellenberger 1970
2 individuals
Reptilia - Grallatoridae
Prototrisauropus minimus n. sp. Ellenberger 1970
1 individual
recombined as Grallator minimus
Reptilia
Pseudotetrasauropus elegans n. sp. Ellenberger 1970
1 individual
nomen dubium belonging to Prosauropoda
Tetrasauropus unguiferus n. gen., n. sp. Ellenberger 1970
1 individual
HF1
see common names

Geography
Country:Lesotho State/province:Maseru
Coordinates: 30.4° South, 27.6° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:51.0° South, 1.5° West
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Triassic Epoch:Late/Upper Triassic
Stage:Norian 10 m.y. bin:Triassic 4
Key time interval:Norian
Age range of interval:227.00000 - 208.50000 m.y. ago
Age estimate:maximum 209.6 ± 1.4 Ma (U/Pb)
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Stormberg Formation:Elliot Member:Lower
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: "The Ha Falatsa site yielded a maximum depositional age of 209.6 ± 1.4 Ma"
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:green lithified sandstone
Includes fossils?Y
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:cast,trace
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Spatial orientation:life position
Associated major elements:some
Temporal resolution:snapshot
Spatial resolution:autochthonous
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:surface (in situ),observed (not collected)
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Collectors:Ellenberger
Metadata
Also known as:Ha Falatsa, HF1
Database number:149751
Authorizer:M. Carrano Enterer:M. Carrano
Modifier:M. Carrano Research group:vertebrate
Created:2013-08-24 07:08:16 Last modified:2023-10-31 15:36:38
Access level:the public Released:2013-08-24 07:08:16
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
28154.ETE 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]

Secondary references:

30837ETE S. D'Orazi Porchetti and U. Nicosia. 2007. Re-examination of some large early Mesozoic tetrapod footprints from the African collection of Paul Ellenberger. Ichnos 14(3-4):219-245 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
70980 P. Ellenberger. 1972. Contribution à la classification des Pistes de Vertébrés du Trias: Les types du Stormberg d’Afrique du Sud (I) [Contribution to the classification of Triassic vertebrate footprints: the types from the Stormberg of South Africa (I)]. Palaeovertebrata Mem. Ext.(1972):1-152 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
86234 L. Sciscio, E. M. Bordy, M. G. Lockley and M. Abrahams. 2023. Basal sauropodomorph locomotion: ichnological lessons from the Late Triassic trackways of bipeds and quadrupeds (Elliot Formation, main Karoo Basin). PeerJ 11:e15970:1-44 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
79326 L. Sciscio, M. de Kock, E. Bordy and F. Knoll. 2017. Magnetostratigraphy across the Triassic-Jurassic boundary in the main Karoo Basin. Gondwana Research 51:177-192 [P. Mannion/G. Varnham/G. Varnham]