Pokane (Locality A) (Jurassic to of Lesotho)

Also known as Megazostrodon holotype

Where: Quthing, Lesotho (30.3° S, 27.8° E: paleocoordinates 44.1° S, 1.4° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Upper Member (Elliot Formation), Hettangian to Hettangian (201.3 - 190.8 Ma)

• So-called "middle Elliot" (Kitching & Raath 1984) = lower part of upper Elliot Formation

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collected in 1966-1967; reposited in the BMNH

Collection methods: quarrying,

Primary reference: A. W. Crompton and F. A. Jenkins. 1968. Molar occlusion in Late Triassic mammals. Biological Reviews 43:427-458 [R. Butler/R. Butler]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 105601: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Richard Butler on 22.02.2011

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Taxonomic list

Osteichthyes
 Morganucodonta - Megazostrodontidae
Megazostrodon rudnerae n. gen. n. sp.
Megazostrodon rudnerae n. gen. n. sp. Crompton and Jenkins 1968 mammaliaform
BMNH 26407, partially crushed skull and portions of the postcranium
 Therapsida - Tritylodontidae
Tritylodon sp. Owen 1884 mammaliamorph