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
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Hortalotarsus skirtopodus n. gen., n. sp.
Seeley 1892
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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
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] | |
28154 | ETE | 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] |
23344 | ETE | 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] | |
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] |
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] |