Also known as Northwest face of verticle slope
Where: Mohale's Hoek, Lesotho (30.3° S, 24.7° E: paleocoordinates 42.8° S, 4.5° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Upper Member (Elliot Formation), Hettangian to Hettangian (201.3 - 190.8 Ma)
• "Red Beds of Stormberg Series, just below Cave Sandstone; photograph in Charig (1969) shows stratigraphy of the region." According to Olsen, the redbeds of the Stormberg are Early Jurassic.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; red siliciclastic sediments
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by P. Whybrow in 1966-1967; reposited in the BMNH
Collection methods: mechanical,
• specimens collected on joint British Museum/London University expedition, 1966 and 1967
Primary reference: K. N. Whetstone and P. J. Whybrow. 1983. A "cursorial" crocodilian from the Triassic of Lesotho (Basutoland), Southern Africa. Occasional Papers of the Museum of Natural History, University of Kansas 106:1-37 [J. Alroy/R. Whatley/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 13359: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Robin Whatley on 07.03.2002
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Taxonomic list
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"Lesothosuchus charigi n. gen. n. sp." = Protosuchus haughtoni
"Lesothosuchus charigi n. gen. n. sp." = Protosuchus haughtoni Busbey and Gow 1984 crocodilian BMNH R8503
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