Where: Otjozondupa, Namibia (20.1° S, 18.1° E: paleocoordinates 29.7° S, 6.7° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Etjo Formation (Etendeka Group), Early/Lower Jurassic (201.4 - 174.7 Ma)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: trace
Collected by L. Sciscio in 2013–2014
Collection methods: surface (in situ),
Primary reference: A. Wagensommer, M. Latiano, H. B. Mocke and S. D'Orazi Porchetti. 2016. Dinosaur diversity in an Early Jurassic African desert: the significance of the Etjo Sandstone ichnofauna at the Otjihaenamaparero locality (Namibia). Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie Abhandlungen 281(2):155-182 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 214425: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 29.09.2020
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Reptilia | |
Otozoum moodii Hitchcock 1847 prosauropod |