Seobeng tracksite (zone A/4): Sinemurian, Lesotho
collected by Casalis & Arbousset

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Anomodontia
Pentasauropus incredibilis n. gen., n. sp. Ellenberger 1970
Ellenberger 1970 8 individuals
Reptilia - Chirotheriidae
cf. Chirotherium sp. Kaup 1835
"a large amphibian"
Dinosauria indet. Owen 1842
2 individuals
    = Brontozoum sp. Hitchcock 1847
Ellenberger and Ellenberger 1958
    = Deuterosauropodopus minor n. sp. Ellenberger 1970
Ellenberger 1970
nomen dubium belonging to Chirotheriidae
Reptilia - Grallatoridae
Deuterotrisauropus socialis Ellenberger 1970
Ellenberger 1970
recombined as Grallator socialis
Reptilia - Avetheropoda
Mafatrisauropus errans Ellenberger 1970
Ellenberger 1970
Reptilia - Thecodontosauridae
Pseudotrisauropus subengensis n. sp. Ellenberger 1970
Ellenberger 1970 1 individual
Pseudotrisauropus dieterleni n. sp. Ellenberger 1970
Ellenberger 1970 3 individuals
Reptilia - Theromorpha
Theromorpha indet. Cope 1878
Ellenberger and Ellenberger 1960
see common names

Geography
Country:Lesotho State/province:Leribe
Coordinates: 28.9° South, 28.1° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:42.8° South, 0.4° West
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Altitude:1524 meters
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Jurassic Epoch:Early/Lower Jurassic
Stage:Sinemurian 10 m.y. bin:Jurassic 1
Key time interval:Sinemurian
Age range of interval:199.30000 - 190.80000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Stormberg Formation:Clarens
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: = Cave Sandstone, zone A/4, also listed as Lower Elliot
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:fine,yellow 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
Disassociated 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:Casalis & Arbousset
Metadata
Also known as:Soebeng, Seobong, Subeng, Leribe-Subeng
Database number:56014
Authorizer:M. Carrano Enterer:M. Carrano
Modifier:G. Varnham Research group:vertebrate
Created:2005-11-10 10:41:05 Last modified:2022-03-07 10:35:52
Access level:the public Released:2005-11-10 10:41:05
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

16653.ETE P. Ellenberger. 1955. Note préliminaire sur les pistes et les restes osseux de Vertébrés du Basutoland (Afrique du Sud) [Prelimiinary note on the trackways and bony remains of vertebrates from Basutoland (southern Africa)]. Comptes Rendus des Séances de l'Academie des Sciences, Paris 240:889-891 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]

Secondary references:

68630 A. Azzaroli. 1972. I dinosauri in Africa [Dinosaurs in Africa]. In G. Ligabue, G. Pinna, A. Azzaroli, & P. Taquet (eds.), I Dinosauri del Teneré 42 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
77959 A. J. Charig. 1967. Archosauria. In W. B. Harland (ed.), The Fossil Record: A Symposium with Documentation. Geological Society of London Special Publication 2:703-718 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
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]
15104ETE F. Ellenberger and P. Ellenberger. 1958. Principaux types de pistes de Vertébrés dans les couches du Stormberg au Basutoland (Afrique du Sud) (Note préliminaire) [Principal types of vertebrate prints in the Stormberg beds of Basutoland (South Africa) (preliminary note)]. Comptes Rendus de la Société géologique de France 1958:65-67 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
15108ETE F. Ellenberger and P. Ellenberger. 1960. Sur une nouvelle dalle à pistes de Vertébrés, decouverte au Basutoland (Afrique du Sud) [On a new find of vertebrate prints, discovered in Basutoland (South Africa)]. Comptes Rendus de la Société géologique de France 1960:236-238 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
30847ETE F. Ellenberger, P. Ellenberger, and L. Ginsburg. 1969. The appearance and evolution of dinosaurs in the Trias and Lias: a comparison between South African Upper Karoo and western Europe based on vertebrate footprints. Gondwana Stratigraphy, IUGS Symposium, Buenos Aires, 1-15 October 1967; UNESCO, Paris 2:333-354 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
69455 F. Ellenberger, P. Ellenberger, and L. Ginsburg. 1970. Les Dinosaures du Trias et du Lias en France et en Afrique du Sud, d'après les pistes qu'ils ont laissées [The Triassic and Liassic dinosaurs in France and South Africa, after their prints]. Bulletin de la Société Géologique de France, 7e série 12(1):151-159 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
28154ETE 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]
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]
62678 O. A. Reig. 1970. The Proterosuchia and the early evolution of the archosaurs; an essay about the origin of a major taxon. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 139(5):229-292 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]