Funnystone Farm: Pliensbachian, South Africa
collected by Mr Art Isted 1911

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia - Notochampsidae
Notochampsa istedana n. gen., n. sp. Broom 1904
1 specimen
Holotype: SAM-PK-4013 (partial skull exposed in dorsal view; right hemimandi- ble; right scapula; both coracoids; interclavicle; the proximal end of the right humerus; left forelimb (humerus, radius, carpus, metacarpus); partial left femur; left tibia; left fibula; dorsal osteoderms; and associated ribs.)
see common names

Geography
Country:South Africa State/province:Eastern Cape County:Barkly East
Coordinates: 31.0° South, 27.6° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:43.3° South, 4.6° West
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Altitude:1789 meters
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Jurassic Epoch:Early/Lower Jurassic
Stage:Pliensbachian 10 m.y. bin:Jurassic 2
Key time interval:Pliensbachian Zone: Massospondylus
Age range of interval:190.80000 - 182.70000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Stormberg Formation:Clarens
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: = Cave Sandstone
Dollman and Clark 2021: Funnystone farm is located stratigraphically within the Massospondylus Assemblage Zone, Clarens Formation (Viglietti et al. 2020). Our stratigraphic measurements of this site place SAM-PK-4013 approximately 65 m above the Elliot/ Clarens formation contact (Fig. 1). The stratigraphic position of Notochampsa therefore places it within the Pliensbachian (Bordy et al. 2020a, b).
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: sandstone
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: Dollman and Clark 2021: It is an articulated specimen preserved in a very fine-grained, pale olive (10Y 6/2) sandstone block
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Preservation of anatomical detail:good
Associated major elements:all
Fragmentation:occasional
Temporal resolution:snapshot
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:selective quarrying,mechanical,field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collectors:Mr Art Isted Collection dates:1911
Collection method comments: Dollman and Clark 2021: Iziko South African Museum, Cape Town, South Africa
Metadata
Database number:36671
Authorizer:M. Carrano Enterer:M. Carrano
Modifier:G. Varnham Research group:vertebrate
Created:2004-02-09 09:00:19 Last modified:2022-01-17 09:49:56
Access level:the public Released:2004-02-09 09:00:19
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

9818. S. H. Haughton. 1924. The fauna and stratigraphy of the Stormberg Series. Annals of the South African Museum 12:323-497 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]

Secondary references:

79134 K. N. Dollman and J. M. Clark. 2021. Revised anatomy, taxonomy and biostratigraphy of Notochampsa istedana Broom, 1904, a Lower Jurassic crocodyliform from the Clarens Formation (Stormberg Group), and its implications for early crocodyliform phylogeny. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 19(9):651-675 [P. Mannion/G. Varnham]
63959 K. N. Dollman, P. A. Viglietti, and J. N. Choiniere. 2019. A new specimen of Orthosuchus stormbergi (Nash 1968) and a review of the distribution of Southern African Lower Jurassic crocodylomorphs. Historical Biology 31(5):653-664 [M. Uhen/A. Kourmadas/P. Mannion]
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]
25375ETE 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]