Libataolong tracksite: Norian, Lesotho
collected by Ellenberger 1950

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia
cf. Otozoum sp. Hitchcock 1847
3 specimens
    = Pseudotetrasauropus bipedoida n. gen., n. sp. Ellenberger 1970
Ellenberger 1970
LES 028 1, 2, 3 (LP1, LP2)
see common names

Geography
Country:Lesotho State/province:Mohale's Hoek
Coordinates: 30.4° South, 27.6° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:51.0° South, 1.6° West
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:small collection
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 (Sr isotope)
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Stormberg Formation:Elliot Member:Lower
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: orig. Molteno Fm.; same stratigraphic level (and therefore age) as Ha Falatsa
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:desiccation cracks,pebbly,green sandstone
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: “sandy beach with clay pebbles”
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 Collection dates:1950s
Metadata
Also known as:LB1, LB2
Database number:56030
Authorizer:M. Carrano Enterer:M. Carrano
Modifier:M. Carrano Research group:vertebrate
Created:2005-11-10 11:43:42 Last modified:2023-11-21 12:42:55
Access level:the public Released:2005-11-10 11:43:42
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:

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]
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]
65678 M. G. Lockley, S. G. Lucas, and A. P. Hunt. 2006. Evazoum and the renaming of Northern Hemisphere “Pseudotetrasauropus”: implications for tetrapod ichnotaxonomy at the Triassic-Jurassic boundary. In J. D. Harris, S. G. Lucas, J. A. Spielmann, M. G. Lockley, A. R. C. Milner, J. I. Kirkland (eds.), The Triassic-Jurassic Terrestrial Transition. New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 37:199-206 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/P. Wagner]
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]