Rooi Nek, Herschel: Norian - Rhaetian, South Africa
collected by S. H. Haughton 1920

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia
Melanorosaurus readi Haughton 1924
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
Time
Period:Triassic Epoch:Late/Upper Triassic
10 m.y. bin:Triassic 4
Key time interval:Norian - Rhaetian
Age range of interval:228.00000 - 201.30000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Stormberg Formation:Elliot Member:Lower
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: near base of Fm. in bottom third
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:

19505ETE 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]
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]