Also known as Massospondylus type, farm Beaucherf
Where: Free State, South Africa (28.5° S, 29.2° E: paleocoordinates 43.0° S, 1.3° E)
• coordinate stated in text
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Upper Member (Elliot Formation), Hettangian to Hettangian (201.3 - 190.8 Ma)
• "Red Beds" = Elliot Fm. (upper)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; sandstone and brown shale
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by J. M. Orpen & R. J. N. Orpen in 1853; reposited in the BMNH
Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical,
Primary reference: R. Owen. 1854. Descriptive catalogue of the Fossil organic remains of Reptilia and Pisces contained in the Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons of England. London 1-184 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 36741: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 12.02.2004
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Reptilia | |
? Pachyspondylus sp., Pachyspondylus orpenii n. gen. n. sp., ? Leptospondylus sp., Leptospondylus capensis n. gen. n. sp.
? Pachyspondylus sp. Owen 1854 prosauropod
Pachyspondylus orpenii n. gen. n. sp. Owen 1854 prosauropod
? Leptospondylus sp. Owen 1854 prosauropod
Leptospondylus capensis n. gen. n. sp. Owen 1854 prosauropod | |
Massospondylus carinatus n. gen. n. sp.
Massospondylus carinatus n. gen. n. sp. Owen 1854 sauropodomorph |