Krommespruit, Voisana: Hettangian - Sinemurian, South Africa
collected by A. W. Crompton 1966–1967

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia - Heterodontosauridae
Heterodontosauridae indet. Romer 1966
Porro et al. 2011 1 specimen
SAM-PK-K1326
Heterodontosauridae indet. Romer 1966
Porro et al. 2011 1 specimen
SAM-PK-K10488, partial skull
    = Pegomastax africanus n. gen., n. sp. Sereno 2012
Kitching and Raath 1984
Heterodontosaurus tucki Crompton and Charig 1962
Kitching and Raath 1984 3 specimens
SAM-PK-K1332, complete articulated skull and skeleton. SAM-PK-K1328, K10487 (5 measurements)
see common names

Geography
Country:South Africa State/province:Eastern Cape County:Herschel
Coordinates: 30.6° South, 27.4° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:44.1° South, 1.9° West
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Altitude:1770 meters
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Jurassic Epoch:Early/Lower Jurassic
10 m.y. bin:Jurassic 1
Key time interval:Hettangian - Sinemurian
Age range of interval:201.40000 - 192.90000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Stormberg Formation:Elliot Member:Upper
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: Upper Elliot Fm. dated as Hettangian by McPhee et al. (2017)
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:red siltstone
Includes fossils?Y
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Degree of concentration:dispersed
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Preservation of anatomical detail:excellent
Abundance in sediment:few
Articulated whole bodies:all
Fragmentation:occasional
Temporal resolution:snapshot
Spatial resolution:parautochthonous
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:selective quarrying,surface (float),mechanical,field collection,survey of museum collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collectors:A. W. Crompton Collection dates:1966–1967
Collection method comments: SAM: Iziko South African Museum, Cape Town
Discovered during the 1966–67 joint South African Museum, Yale University, British Museum (Natural History), University of London expedition
Metadata
Database number:85486
Authorizer:M. Carrano, R. Butler Enterer:M. Carrano, R. Butler
Modifier:M. Carrano Research group:vertebrate
Created:2008-12-30 21:41:19 Last modified:2023-11-08 11:27:38
Access level:the public Released:2008-12-30 21:41:19
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
13194.ETE A. P. Santa Luca, A. W. Crompton, and A. J. Charig. 1976. A complete skeleton of the Late Triassic ornithischian Heterodontosaurus tucki. Nature 264(5574):324-328 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]

Secondary references:

28878ETE R. J. Butler, L. B. Porro, and D. B. Norman. 2008. A juvenile skull of the primitive ornithischian dinosaur Heterodontosaurus tucki from the 'Stormberg' of southern Africa. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 28(3):700-711 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
25375ETE 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]
35638 F. Knoll. 2004. Review of the tetrapod fauna of the "Lower Stormberg Group" of the main Karoo Basin (southern Africa): implication for the age of the Lower Elliot Formation. Bulletin de la Société Géologique de France 175(1):73-83 [R. Butler/R. Butler/M. Carrano]
78790 D. B. Norman, A. W. Crompton, R. J. Butler, L. B. Porro, and A. J. Charig. 2011. The Lower Jurassic ornithischian dinosaur Heterodontosaurus tucki Crompton & Charig, 1962: cranial anatomy, functional morphology, taxonomy, and relationships. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 163:182-276 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
43932 L. B. Porro, R. J. Butler, P. M. Barrett, S. Moore-Fay, and R. L. Abel. 2011. New heterodontosaurid specimens from the Lower Jurassic of southern Africa and the early ornithischian dinosaur radiation. Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 101:351-366 [R. Butler/R. Butler/M. Carrano]
13195ETE A. P. Santa Luca. 1980. The postcranial skeleton of Heterodontosaurus tucki (Reptilia, Ornithischia) from the Stormberg of South Africa. Annals of the South African Museum 79(7):159-211 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
43191 P. C. Sereno. 2012. Taxonomy, morphology, masticatory function and phylogeny of heterodontosaurid dinosaurs. Zookeys 226:1-225 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]