List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Reptilia
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? Sauropoda indet.
(Marsh 1878)
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Ellenberger 1970 | 1 individual | ||||||||
| "Bête de Blikana" (1 measurement) | ||||||||||
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= Dinosauria indet.
Owen 1842
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Kitching and Raath 1984 | |||||||||
| "Blikana dinosaur" | ||||||||||
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= Blikanasaurus cromptoni n. gen., n. sp.
Galton and Van Heerden 1985
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Galton and Van Heerden 1985 | |||||||||
| SAM K403 | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | South Africa | State/province: | Eastern Cape | County: | Herschel |
| Coordinates: | 30.6° South, 27.6° East (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 50.1° South, 1.5° West | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | stated in text | ||||
| Altitude: | 1370 meters | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Stratigraphy
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | not reported |
| 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: | none |
| Encrustation: | none |
| Temporal resolution: | snapshot |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | selective quarrying,chemical,mechanical,acetic,field collection | ||
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis | ||
| Collectors: | C. E. Gow | Collection dates: | 1962 |
| Collection method comments: "The specimen was prepared by immersion in 12% acetic acid after all exposed bone surfaces had been coated with perspex dissolved in chloroform" | |||
Metadata
| Also known as: | BMNH-SAM | ||
| Database number: | 35295 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Carrano | Enterer: | M. Carrano |
| Modifier: | M. Carrano | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2003-11-25 14:15:53 | Last modified: | 2021-09-07 09:54:03 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2003-11-25 14:15:53 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 65445. | Anonymous. 1964. Dinosaur evolution concepts revisted. Scientific South Africa 1:337 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
Secondary references:
| 77959 | A. J. Charig. 1967. Archosauria. In W. B. Harland (ed.), The Fossil Record: A Symposium with Documentation. Geological Society of London Special Publication 2:703-718 [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] |
| 9521 | P. M. Galton and J. Van Heerden. 1985. Partial hindlimb of Blikanasaurus cromptoni n. gen. and n. sp., representing a new family of prosauropod dinosaurs from the Upper Triassic of South Africa. Géobios 18(4):509-516 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/J. Alroy] | |
| 17408 | ETE | P. M. Galton and J. Van Heerden. 1998. Anatomy of the prosauropod dinosaur Blikanasaurus cromptoni (Upper Triassic, South Africa), with notes on the other tetrapods from the lower Elliot Formation. Paläontologische Zeitschrift 72(1/2):163-177 [M. Carrano/K. Maguire/J. Alroy] |
| 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] |
| 62678 | O. A. Reig. 1970. The Proterosuchia and the early evolution of the archosaurs; an essay about the origin of a major taxon. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 139(5):229-292 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |