Thabana-Morena (zone A/6): Norian - Rhaetian, Lesotho
collected by Ellenberger & L. Ginsburg 1959-1963
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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unclassified
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"Crocodylia" indet.
(Owen 1842)
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Kitching and Raath 1984 | |||||||||
| "crocodilian" | ||||||||||
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= Crocodylomorpha indet.
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Mannion 2017 | |||||||||
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Reptilia
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Melanorosauridae indet.
Huene 1929
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2 specimens | |||||||||
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= cf. Gryponyx sp.
Broom 1911
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Kitching and Raath 1984 | |||||||||
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= Melanorosaurus thabanensis n. sp.
Gauffre 1993
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Gauffre 1993 | |||||||||
| recombined as Meroktenos thabanensis | ||||||||||
| MNHN.F.LES16; MNHN.F.LES351 | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | Lesotho | State/province: | Mafeteng |
| Coordinates: | 29.9° South, 27.4° East (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 49.4° South, 1.4° West | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||
| Altitude: | 1596 meters | ||
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Stratigraphy
| Geological group: | Stormberg | Formation: | Elliot | Member: | Lower |
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: Upper Red Beds of the Thabana-Morena site originally thought to correspond to the Upper Elliot Formation and to the base of the Clarens Formation also known as the Massospondylus range zone - now assigned to the Lower Elliot Fm. | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | not reported |
| Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
| Preservation of anatomical detail: | good |
| Abundance in sediment: | rare |
| Articulated whole bodies: | none |
| Fragmentation: | none |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | field collection,survey of museum collection | ||
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis | ||
| Museum repositories: | MNHN | ||
| Collectors: | Ellenberger & L. Ginsburg | Collection dates: | 1959-1963 |
Metadata
| Also known as: | Seboka | ||
| Database number: | 59291 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Carrano, P. Mannion | Enterer: | K. Maguire, M. Carrano, P. Mannion |
| Modifier: | G. Varnham | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2006-03-24 14:12:40 | Last modified: | 2022-03-18 05:15:42 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2006-03-24 14:12:40 |
| 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:
| 16646 | ETE | F.-X. Gauffre. 1993. The most recent Melanorosauridae (Saurischia, Prosauropoda), Lower Jurassic of Lesotho, with remarks on the prosauropod phylogeny. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie Monatshefte 1993(11):648-654 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
| 25375 | ETE | J. W. Kitching and M. A. Raath. 1984. Fossils from the Elliot and Clarens Formations (Karoo Sequence) of the northeastern Cape, Orange Free State and Lesotho, and a suggested biozonation based on tetrapods. Palaeontologia Africana 25:111-125 [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] | |
| 63504 | P. D. Mannion. 2017. Personal opinions. [P. Mannion/P. Mannion] | |
| 57883 | C. Peyre de Fabrègues and R. Allain. 2016. New material and revision of Melanorosaurus thabanensis, a basal sauropodomorph from the Upper Triassic of Lesotho. PeerJ 4:e1639:1-32 [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] |