Also known as Thecodontosaurus minor type site
Where: Eastern Cape, South Africa (31.1° S, 28.4° E: paleocoordinates 45.0° S, 1.2° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Upper Member (Elliot Formation), Hettangian to Hettangian (201.3 - 190.8 Ma)
• "Red Beds" = upper part of Elliot Fm.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by M. Ricono in pre-1918
Primary reference: S. H. Haughton. 1918. A new dinosaur from the Stormberg Beds of South Africa. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, series 9 2:468-469 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 36701: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 10.02.2004
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Reptilia | |
Thecodontosaurus minor n. sp.
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