Matsieng tracksite (zone B/5): Pliensbachian, Lesotho
collected by P. Ellenberger

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia - Grallatoridae
Kainotrisauropus moshoeshoei Ellenberger 1970
recombined as Grallator moshoeshoei
variety profundus
Grallator matsiengensis n. sp. Ellenberger 1970
Grallator damanei n. sp. Ellenberger 1970
see common names

Geography
Country:Lesotho
Coordinates: 29.6° South, 27.6° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:42.1° South, 3.7° West
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Jurassic Epoch:Early/Lower Jurassic
Stage:Pliensbachian 10 m.y. bin:Jurassic 2
Key time interval:Pliensbachian
Age range of interval:190.80000 - 182.70000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Stormberg Formation:Clarens
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: lower Cave Sandstone, zone B/5

Bordy et al. 2020
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:fine,green sandstone
Includes fossils?Y
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:mold/impression,trace
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Spatial orientation:life position
Associated major elements:some
Disassociated major elements:some
Spatial resolution:autochthonous
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:surface (in situ),observed (not collected)
Reason for describing collection:biostratigraphic analysis
Collectors:P. Ellenberger
Metadata
Database number:84077
Authorizer:M. Carrano Enterer:M. Carrano
Modifier:G. Varnham Research group:vertebrate
Created:2008-09-16 20:18:19 Last modified:2022-03-07 10:33:39
Access level:the public Released:2008-09-16 20:18:19
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:

77042 E. M. Bordy. 2021. Darting towards Storm Shelter: a minute dinosaur trackway from southern Africa. South African Journal of Science 117(3/4):9145:1-11 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]