Eagle's Crag, Barkly East (zone B/4): Pliensbachian, South Africa
collected by W. H. Wallace 1888

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia
Hortalotarsus skirtopodus n. gen., n. sp. Seeley 1892
1 individual
nomen dubium belonging to Prosauropoda
AM 455
see common names

Geography
Country:South Africa State/province:Eastern Cape County:Barkly East
Coordinates: 31.0° South, 27.6° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:43.3° South, 4.6° West
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Altitude:1789 meters
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Jurassic Epoch:Early/Lower Jurassic
Stage:Pliensbachian 10 m.y. bin:Jurassic 2
Key time interval:Pliensbachian
Age range of interval:190.80000 - 182.70000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Stormberg Formation:Clarens
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: = Cave Sandstone
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: sandstone
Includes fossils?Y
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Spatial orientation:life position
Preservation of anatomical detail:good
Associated major elements:all
Temporal resolution:snapshot
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:selective quarrying,mechanical,field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collectors:W. H. Wallace Collection dates:11 Jun 1888
Collection method comments: discovered by William Horner Wallace
Metadata
Also known as:Hortalotarsus type, Eagles Crag
Database number:36753
Authorizer:M. Carrano Enterer:M. Carrano
Modifier:M. Carrano Research group:vertebrate
Created:2004-02-12 11:53:03 Last modified:2023-11-08 11:31:31
Access level:the public Released:2004-02-12 11:53:03
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

53448. H. G. Seeley. 1892. Contribution to a knowledge of the Saurischia of Europe and Africa. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London 48:188-191 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]

Secondary references:

9843 R. Broom. 1906. On the South African dinosaur (Hortalotarsus). Transactions of the South African Philosophical Society 16(3):201-206 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
10538 M. R. Cooper. 1981. The prosauropod dinosaur Massospondylus carinatus Owen from Zimbabwe: its biology, mode of life and phylogenetic significance. Occasional Papers of the National Museums and Monuments of Rhodesia, Series B, Natural Sciences 6(10):689-840 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
28154ETE P. Ellenberger. 1970. Les niveaux paléontologiques de première apparition des mammifères primoridaux en Afrique du Sud et leur ichnologie. Establissement de zones stratigraphiques detaillees dans le Stormberg du Lesotho (Afrique du Sud) (Trias Supérieur à Jurassique) [The paleontological levels of the first appearance of primordial mammals in southern Africa and their ichnology. Establishment of detailed stratigraphic zones in the Stormberg of Lesotho (southern Africa) (Upper Triassic to Jurassic). In: S. H. Haughton (ed.), Second Symposium on Gondwana Stratigraphy and Paleontology, International Union of Geological Sciences. Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, Pretoria 343-370 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
23344ETE S. H. Haughton and A. S. Brink. 1954. A bibliographical list of Reptilia from the Karroo Beds of South Africa. Palaeontologia Africana 2:1-187 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/S. Hellert]
62966 F. v. Huene. 1914. I: Animalia. Pars 4. Saurischia et Ornithischia triadica (“Dinosauria” triadica). 1-20 [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]
53459 H. G. Seeley. 1894. On Hortalotarsus skirtopodus, a new saurischian fossil from Barkly East, Cape Colony. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, series 6 14:411-419 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
9826 H. G. Seeley. 1895. On the type of the genus Massospondylus, and on some vertebrae and limb bones of M. (?) browni. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, series 6 15:102-125 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]