kopje, Kromme Spruit (zone A/5): Norian, South Africa
collected 1918

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia
Euskelosaurus africanus n. sp. Haughton 1924
1 individual
nomen dubium belonging to Prosauropoda
spelled "Euskelesaurus"; SAM 3608
Reptilia - Plateosauridae
Plateosaurus cullingworthi n. sp. Haughton 1924
4 individuals
recombined as Plateosauravus cullingworthi
"3 or 4 individuals"; SAM 3341-3356, 3603-3603
see common names

Geography
Country:South Africa State/province:Eastern Cape County:Herschel
Coordinates: 30.5° South, 27.4° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:51.1° South, 1.8° West
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Altitude:1455 meters
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Triassic Epoch:Late/Upper Triassic
Stage:Norian 10 m.y. bin:Triassic 4
Key time interval:Norian
Age range of interval:227.00000 - 208.50000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Stormberg Formation:Elliot Member:Lower
Stratigraphic resolution:member
Stratigraphy comments: base of "Red Beds" = lower Elliot Fm. Lower Elliot Fm. dated as Norian (McPhee et al. 2014)
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: not reported
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Preservation of anatomical detail:good
Associated major elements:some
Disassociated major elements:some
Fragmentation:occasional
Encrustation:none
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:selective quarrying,surface (float),surface (in situ),mechanical,field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collection dates:1918
Collection method comments: bones found weathered down slope of a steep kopje, then traced to a "pocket" of in situ bones near the top.
Metadata
Also known as:Krommspruit, Krommespruit
Database number:36735
Authorizer:M. Carrano Enterer:M. Carrano
Modifier:E. Dunne Research group:vertebrate
Created:2004-02-11 12:33:25 Last modified:2019-08-03 08:02:53
Access level:the public Released:2004-02-11 12:33:25
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:

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]
12994ETE P. M. Galton. 2001. The prosauropod dinosaur Plateosaurus Meyer, 1837 (Saurischia: Sauropodomorpha; Upper Triassic). II. Notes on the referred species. Revue Paléobiologie, Genève 20(2):435-502 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
23344ETE S. H. Haughton and A. S. Brink. 1954. A bibliographical list of Reptilia from the Karroo Beds of South Africa. Palaeontologia Africana 2:1-187 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/S. Hellert]
9816 J. v. Heerden. 1979. The morphology and taxonomy of Euskelosaurus (Reptilia: Saurischia; Late Triassic) from South Africa. Navorsinge van die Nasionale Museum 4(2):23-84 [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]
32744ETE A. M. Yates. 2003. A definite prosauropod dinosaur from the Lower Elliot Formation (Norian: Upper Triassic) of South Africa. Palaeontologia Africana 39:63-68 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]