List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia
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Melanorosaurus readi
Haughton 1924
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1 individual | |||||||||
SAM 3532 | ||||||||||
see common names |
Geography
Country: | South Africa | State/province: | Eastern Cape | County: | Herschel |
Coordinates: | 30.6° South, 27.4° East (view map) | ||||
Paleocoordinates: | 50.0° South, 1.8° West | ||||
Basis of coordinate: | stated in text | ||||
Altitude: | 1577 meters | ||||
Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Stratigraphy
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | not reported |
Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body |
Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Preservation of anatomical detail: | good |
Disassociated major elements: | all |
Fragmentation: | occasional |
Temporal resolution: | snapshot |
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods: | field collection | ||
Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis | ||
Collectors: | S. H. Haughton | Collection dates: | 1920s |
Metadata
Also known as: | Rooinek | ||
Database number: | 36705 | ||
Authorizer: | M. Carrano | Enterer: | M. Carrano |
Modifier: | M. Carrano | Research group: | vertebrate |
Created: | 2004-02-10 07:35:23 | Last modified: | 2015-06-24 10:35:34 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2004-02-10 07:35:23 |
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:
19505 | ETE | P. M. Galton, J. Van Heerden, and A. M. Yates. 2005. Postcranial anatomy of referred specimens of the sauropodomorph dinosaur Melanorosaurus from the Upper Triassic of South Africa. In K. Carpenter and V. Tidwell (eds.), Thunder-Lizards: The Sauropodomorph Dinosaurs. Indiana University Press, Bloomington 1-37 [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] |