farm Vastrap (804) (Upper Elliot): Hettangian - Sinemurian, South Africa
collected by J. W. Kitching

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Dipnoi - Ceratodontidae
tooth plates & partial skeletons
Amphibia - Temnospondyli - Chigutisauridae
Warren and Damiani 1999 1 individual
BP/1/5406, fragments of skull and mandible, postcranial fragments
Brachyopoidea indet. Lydekker 1885
1 individual
BP/1/5092, partial skull and attached mandibular rami.
Warren and Damiani 1999
Branchiopoda - Diplostraca
see common names

Geography
Country:South Africa State/province:Free State County:Ladybrand
Coordinates: 29.1° South, 27.3° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:43.1° South, 15.2° East (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period: Jurassic Epoch: Early Jurassic
Stage: Hettangian - Sinemurian 10 m.y. bin: Jurassic 1
Key time interval: Hettangian - Sinemurian
Age range of interval: 201.4 - 192.9 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Stormberg Formation:Elliot Member:Upper
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: not reported
Environment:lacustrine - small
Geology comments: "playa lake"
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils,mesofossils
Preservation of anatomical detail:medium
Associated major elements:some
Fragmentation:frequent
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection,survey of museum collection
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Museum repositories:BPI
Collectors:J. W. Kitching
Metadata
Also known as:Ladybrand
Database number:75263
Authorizer:M. Carrano, R. Butler Enterer:M. Carrano, R. Butler
Modifier:M. Carrano Research group:vertebrate
Created:2007-10-01 07:07:06 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2007-10-01 07:07:06
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:
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]

Secondary references:

35686 A. Warren and R. Damiani. 1999. Stereospondyl amphibians from the Elliot Formation of South Africa. Palaeontologia africana 35:45-54 [R. Butler/R. Butler]
47028 D. M. S. Watson. 1913. Micropholis stowi, Huxley, a temnospondylus amphibian from South Africa. Geological Magazine (Decade V) 10:340-346 [R. Butler/R. Butler/R. Butler]