Moyeni tracksite (zone B/1): Hettangian - Sinemurian, Lesotho
collected by P. Ellenberger 1963

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
? Hoploparida indet.
Ellenberger 1970
cf. Homosiroidea meandrica
Smith et al. 2009
Reptilia - Grallatoridae
aff. Eubrontes sp. Hitchcock 1845
1 individual
"or Grallator"
cf. Anomoepus sp. Hitchcock 1848
1 individual
or Sauropus
    = Neotrisauropus deambulator n. sp. Ellenberger 1970
Ellenberger 1970
recombined as Grallator deambulator
"piste Y"
Plastisauropus ingens n. gen., n. sp. (Ellenberger 1970)
Ellenberger 1974 2 individuals
trackways G1, G2
Reptilia - Moyenisauropodidae
Moyenisauropus dodai n. sp. Ellenberger 1974
Ellenberger 1974 5 individuals
synonym of Anomoepus scambus
Moyenisauropus longicauda n. sp. Ellenberger 1972
Ellenberger 1974 1 individual
synonym of Anomoepus scambus
"Piste V"
Moyenisauropus natator n. sp. Ellenberger 1970
Ellenberger 1970 15 individuals
synonym of Anomoepus scambus
varieties jejunus, mosebetsii
Moyenisauropus vermivorus n. sp. Ellenberger 1970
Ellenberger 1970 10 individuals
synonym of Anomoepus scambus
variety mendrezi
Moyenisauropus natatilis n. sp. Ellenberger 1974
Ellenberger 1974 9 individuals
synonym of Anomoepus scambus
Moyenisauropus minor n. sp. Ellenberger 1970
Ellenberger 1970 1 individual
synonym of Anomoepus scambus
variety fabri
Moyenisauropus palmipes Ellenberger 1970
Ellenberger 1970
recombined as Anomoepus palmipes
Reptilia
Chirotherioidea indet. Huene 1954
Smith et al. 2009 1 individual
Mammalia
Eotetrapodiscus moyenensis n. sp. Ellenberger 1970
Ellenberger 1970 3 individuals
trackways A, B, C on small slab
Eotetrapodiscus cursor n. sp. Ellenberger 1970
Ellenberger 1970 1 individual
Amphibia
Amphibiopodiscus saltator n. gen., n. sp. Ellenberger 1970
Ellenberger 1970
Amphibia - Temnospondyli
Tetrapoda indet. (Jaekel 1911)
1 individual
    = Episcopopus ventrosus n. gen., n. sp. Ellenberger 1970
Ellenberger 1970
unclassified
Skolekichnus coprophagus n. gen., n. sp. Ellenberger 1974
Ellenberger 1974 1 individual
see common names

Geography
Country:Lesotho State/province:Quthing
Coordinates: 30.4° South, 27.7° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:44.1° South, 1.4° West
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Altitude:1668 meters
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Jurassic Epoch:Early/Lower Jurassic
10 m.y. bin:Jurassic 1
Key time interval:Hettangian - Sinemurian
Age range of interval:201.40000 - 192.90000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Stormberg Formation:Elliot Member:Upper
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: "in the middle of the Red Beds"
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:current ripples,fine,red sandstone
Secondary lithology:paleosol/pedogenic,nodular,green,white sandstone
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: "sandstone...greenish-white color, intercalated among the first red sands of the upper Stormberg facies". "sandstone surface...ripple-marked...algal-matted..." "one of several fine-grained sandstone beds that emanate from the top of a 4 m-thick sandstone body and interfinger with overlying mudrocks...Mudrocks immediately overlying the track-bearing sandstone are uncharacteristically olive-green...the color change is almost certainly the result of contact metamorphism from a nearby dolerite sill and does not have any paleoenvironmental significance."
Environment:fine channel fill
Geology comments: "inside bank of a meander loop, with the main trackway surface preserved on one of several scroll bars making up a low-angle point bar."
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,cast,trace
Degree of concentration:concentrated
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Spatial orientation:life position
Preservation of anatomical detail:good
Associated major elements:some
Disassociated major elements:some
Temporal resolution:snapshot
Spatial resolution:autochthonous
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:some macrofossils,ichnofossils
Collection methods:bulk,selective quarrying,surface (in situ),peel or thin section,field collection,observed (not collected)
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Collectors:P. Ellenberger Collection dates:1963
Metadata
Database number:56026
Authorizer:M. Carrano Enterer:M. Carrano
Modifier:M. Carrano Research group:vertebrate
Created:2005-11-10 11:13:12 Last modified:2022-01-24 13:24:47
Access level:the public Released:2005-11-10 11:13:12
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
15109.ETE F. Ellenberger, P. Ellenberger, J. Fabre and C. Mendrez. 1963. Deux nouvelles dalles à pistes de Vertébrés fossiles découvertes au Basutoland (Afrique du Sud) [Two new sites of fossil vertebrate prints discovered in Basutoland (South Africa)]. Comptes Rendus de la Société géologique de France 1963:315-317 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]

Secondary references:

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]
30917ETE P. Ellenberger. 1974. Contribution à la classification des pistes de Vertébrés du Trias: les types du Stormberg d'Afrique du Sud (IIème partie: Le Stormberg superieur - I. Le biome de la zone B/1 ou niveau de Moyeni: ses biocénoses) [Contribution to the classification of the vertebrate tracks of the Triassic: the types from the Stormberg of South Africa (2nd part: The upper Stormberg - I. The biome of zone B/1 or Moyeni level: its biocoenoses]. Palaeovertebrata Mém. Ext.(1974):1-147 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
43779 F. Knoll. 2005. The tetrapod fauna of the Upper Elliot and Clarens formations in the main Karoo Basin (South Africa and Lesotho). Bulletin de la Société Géologique de France 176(1):81-91 [R. Butler/R. Butler/M. Carrano]
70570 C. A. Marsicano, J. A. Wilson, and R. M. H. Smith. 2014. A temnospondyl trackway from the early Mesozoic of western Gondwana and its implications for basal tetrapod locomotion. PLoS ONE 9(8):e103255:1-15 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
79219 R. M. H. Smith, C. A. Marsicano, and J. A. Wilson. 2009. Sedimentology and paleoecology of a diverse Early Jurassic tetrapod tracksite in Lesotho, southern Africa. Palaios 24(10):672-684 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
35129ETE J. A. Wilson, C. A. Marsicano, and R. M. H. Smith. 2009. Dynamic locomotor capabilities revealed by early dinosaur trackmakers from southern Africa. PLoS One 4(10):e7331:1-8 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]