Lekhalo-la-Maburu tracksite (Zone C/4): Pliensbachian, Lesotho
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
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Geography
| Country: | Lesotho | State/province: | Mohale's Hoek |
| Coordinates: | 30.2° South, 27.6° East (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 42.0° South, 14.1° East (Wright 2013) | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||
| Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
| Period: | Jurassic | Epoch: | Early Jurassic |
| Stage: | Pliensbachian | 10 m.y. bin: | Jurassic 2 |
| Key time interval: | Pliensbachian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 192.9 - 184.2 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Geological group: | Drakensberg |
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | not reported |
| Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | trace |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
| Spatial orientation: | life position |
| 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 |
Metadata
| Also known as: | Lekhalo la Maburo, Khalo-la-Maburu | ||
| Database number: | 238756 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Carrano | Enterer: | M. Carrano |
| Modifier: | M. Carrano | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2025-02-10 11:00:01 | Last modified: | 2025-02-22 15:12:02 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2025-02-10 11:00:01 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC0 | ||
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:
| 85465 | E. M. Bordy, A. Rampersadh, M. Abrahams, M. G. Lockley, and H. V. Head. 2020. Tracking the Pliensbachian-Toarcian Karoo firewalkers: trackways of quadruped and biped dinosaurs and mammaliaforms. PLoS One 15(1):e0226847:1-36 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] | |
| 90805 | J. R. Foster, J. D. Harris, A. R. Milner, E. M. Bordy, L. Sciscio, D. Castanera, M. Belvedere, L. Xing, and M. G. Lockley. 2025. Jurassic vertebrate tracks and traces. In S. G. Lucas, A. P. Hunt, H. Klein (eds.), Vertebrate Ichnology: Tetrapod Tracks and Trackways 265-478 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |