Noosi (UCL): Hettangian - Sinemurian, Lesotho
collected by K. A. Kermack & Mussett 1963-1964
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia
- Heterodontosauridae
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Lycorhinus consors n. sp.
Thulborn 1974
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1 individual | |||||||||
recombined as Abrictosaurus consors | ||||||||||
NHMUK RU B.54, partial skull and postcrania | ||||||||||
see common names |
Geography
Country: | Lesotho | State/province: | Qacha's Nek |
Coordinates: | 30.1° South, 28.5° East (view map) | ||
Paleocoordinates: | 44.1° South, 0.3° West | ||
Basis of coordinate: | stated in text | ||
Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
Period: | Jurassic | Epoch: | Early/Lower Jurassic |
10 m.y. bin: | Jurassic 1 | ||
Key time interval: | Hettangian - Sinemurian | ||
Age range of interval: | 201.30000 - 190.80000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | red sandstone |
Includes fossils? | Y |
Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body |
Degree of concentration: | dispersed |
Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Preservation of anatomical detail: | medium |
Associated major elements: | all |
Fragmentation: | frequent |
Temporal resolution: | snapshot |
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods: | mechanical,field collection | ||
Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis | ||
Collectors: | K. A. Kermack & Mussett | Collection dates: | 1963-1964 |
Metadata
Also known as: | Abrictosaurus type, Nosi | ||
Database number: | 69695 | ||
Authorizer: | M. Carrano | Enterer: | M. Carrano |
Modifier: | M. Carrano | Research group: | vertebrate |
Created: | 2007-03-01 13:15:49 | Last modified: | 2023-11-08 10:18:55 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2007-03-01 13:15:49 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
14203. | R. A. Thulborn. 1974. A new heterodontosaurid dinosaur (Reptilia: Ornithischia) from the Upper Triassic red beds of Lesotho. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 55:151-175 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
Secondary references:
25375 | ETE | 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] |
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] | |
61518 | D. B. Weishampel and J. B. Weishampel. 1983. Annotated localities of ornithopod dinosaurs: implications to Mesozoic paleobiogeography. The Mosasaur 1:43-87 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |