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
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Lesothosuchus charigi n. gen., n. sp.
Whetstone and Whybrow 1983
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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
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% 27840 | K. 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] |