Ralikhomo tracksite (zone C/3): Pliensbachian, Lesotho
collected by P. Ellenberger

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Pinopsida - Pinales - Pinaceae
Mammalia
Reptilia
Ellenberger 1974 1 individual
Reptilia - Moyenisauropodidae
Ellenberger 1974 1 individual
see common names

Geography
Country:Lesotho State/province:Mohale's Hoek
Coordinates: 30.4° South, 27.6° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:42.2° South, 12.8° East (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period: Jurassic Epoch: Early Jurassic
Stage: Pliensbachian 10 m.y. bin: Jurassic 2
Key time interval: Pliensbachian
Age range of interval: 192.9 - 184.2 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Drakensberg
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: listed as "third cycle of erosion and peneplainization" of the Drakensberg lavas
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: "volcaniclastic"
Includes fossils?Y
Environment:fluvial indet.
Geology comments: "a sedimentary thalweg"
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:trace
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Spatial orientation:life position
Temporal resolution:snapshot
Spatial resolution:autochthonous
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:surface (in situ),observed (not collected)
Reason for describing collection:biostratigraphic analysis
Collectors:P. Ellenberger
Metadata
Also known as:Ralikohomo
Database number:149715
Authorizer:M. Carrano Enterer:M. Carrano
Modifier:M. Carrano Research group:vertebrate
Created:2013-08-22 09:01:55 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2013-08-22 09:01:55
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:
28154.ETE 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]

Secondary references:

85465 E. M. Bordy, A. Rampersadh, M. Abrahams, M. G. Lockley, and H. V. Head. 2020. Tracking the Pliensbachian-Toarcian Karoo firewalkers: trackways of quadruped and biped dinosaurs and mammaliaforms. PLoS One 15(1):e0226847:1-36 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
30917ETE P. Ellenberger. 1974. Contribution à la classification des pistes de Vertébrés du Trias: les types du Stormberg d'Afrique du Sud (IIème partie: Le Stormberg superieur - I. Le biome de la zone B/1 ou niveau de Moyeni: ses biocénoses) [Contribution to the classification of the vertebrate tracks of the Triassic: the types from the Stormberg of South Africa (2nd part: The upper Stormberg - I. The biome of zone B/1 or Moyeni level: its biocoenoses]. Palaeovertebrata Mém. Ext.(1974):1-147 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
90805 J. R. Foster, J. D. Harris, A. R. Milner, E. M. Bordy, L. Sciscio, D. Castanera, M. Belvedere, L. Xing, and M. G. Lockley. 2025. Jurassic vertebrate tracks and traces. In S. G. Lucas, A. P. Hunt, H. Klein (eds.), Vertebrate Ichnology: Tetrapod Tracks and Trackways 265-478 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]