Paballong, Mount Fletcher (UCL): Hettangian - Sinemurian, South Africa
collected by K. A. Kermack 1961-1962

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia - Heterodontosauridae
Lycorhinus angustidens Haughton 1924
1 individual
UCL A.100
    = Heterodontosauridae indet. Romer 1966
Charig and Crompton 1974
    = Lanasaurus scalpridens Gow 1975
Norman et al. 2011
    = Lycorhinus angustidens Haughton 1924
Sereno 2012
see common names

Geography
Country:South Africa State/province:Eastern Cape County:Mt. Fletcher
Coordinates: 30.4° South, 28.5° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:44.5° South, 0.6° West
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Altitude:1517 meters
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
Geological group:Stormberg Formation:Elliot Member:Upper
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: upper part of Elliot Formation
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:good
Associated major elements:all
Fragmentation:frequent
Temporal resolution:snapshot
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collectors:K. A. Kermack Collection dates:1961-1962
Collection method comments: Thulborn claims this was collected over winter 1960-61 but Kermack indicates 1961-62. It is from the same locality as the holotype, but as it was collected some 40 years later and not from an established quarry, it is retained here as a distinct collection.
Metadata
Database number:69696
Authorizer:M. Carrano Enterer:M. Carrano
Modifier:M. Carrano Research group:vertebrate
Created:2007-03-01 13:24:24 Last modified:2022-01-27 11:41:00
Access level:the public Released:2007-03-01 13:24:24
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

23377.ETE K. A. Kermack. 1963. Vertebrate fossils from Basutoland. Proceedings of the Geological Society of London 1603:1-2 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]

Secondary references:

24338ETE A. J. Charig and A. W. Crompton. 1974. The alleged synonymy of Lycorhinus and Heterodontosaurus. Annals of the South African Museum 64:167-189 [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]
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]
43191 P. C. Sereno. 2012. Taxonomy, morphology, masticatory function and phylogeny of heterodontosaurid dinosaurs. Zookeys 226:1-225 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
23376ETE R. A. Thulborn. 1970. The systematic position of the Triassic ornithischian dinosaur Lycorhinus angustidens. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 49:235-245 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]