Lithipeng South (Red Beds of Stormberg Series): Hettangian - Sinemurian, Lesotho
collected by P. Whybrow 1966-1967

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia - Protosuchidae
Lesothosuchus charigi n. gen., n. sp. Whetstone and Whybrow 1983
1 individual
synonym of Protosuchus haughtoni
BMNH R8503
see common names

Geography
Country:Lesotho State/province:Mohale's Hoek
Coordinates: 30.3° South, 24.7° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:42.8° South, 4.5° West
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Jurassic Epoch:Early/Lower Jurassic
10 m.y. bin:Jurassic 1
*Period:Late/Upper Triassic - Early/Lower Jurassic *Epoch:Late/Upper Triassic - Lias
Key time interval:Hettangian - Sinemurian
Age range of interval:201.30000 - 190.80000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Stormberg Formation:Elliot Member:Upper
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: "Red Beds of Stormberg Series, just below Cave Sandstone; photograph in Charig (1969) shows stratigraphy of the region." According to Olsen, the redbeds of the Stormberg are Early Jurassic.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:red "siliciclastic"
Lithology description: "Red Beds"
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Preservation of anatomical detail:good
Associated major elements:all
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:mechanical,field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Museum repositories:BMNH
Collectors:P. Whybrow Collection dates:1966-1967
Collection method comments: specimens collected on joint British Museum/London University expedition, 1966 and 1967
Metadata
Also known as:Northwest face of verticle slope
Database number:13359
Authorizer:J. Alroy Enterer:R. Whatley
Modifier:G. Varnham Research group:vertebrate
Created:2002-03-07 11:58:43 Last modified:2022-01-28 09:48:30
Access level:the public Released:2002-03-07 11:58:43
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

6003.5% 27840K. N. Whetstone and P. J. Whybrow. 1983. A "cursorial" crocodilian from the Triassic of Lesotho (Basutoland), Southern Africa. Occasional Papers of the Museum of Natural History, University of Kansas 106:1-37 [J. Alroy/R. Whatley/M. Carrano]

Secondary references:

79326 L. Sciscio, M. de Kock, E. Bordy and F. Knoll. 2017. Magnetostratigraphy across the Triassic-Jurassic boundary in the main Karoo Basin. Gondwana Research 51:177-192 [P. Mannion/G. Varnham/G. Varnham]