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
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Osteichthyes | |
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
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Tritylodon sp. Owen 1884 mammaliamorph |