Where: Free State, South Africa (29.0° S, 27.4° E: paleocoordinates 42.7° S, 0.9° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Upper Member (Elliot Formation), Hettangian to Hettangian (201.3 - 190.8 Ma)
• "Middle Elliot" probably = lower part of Upper Elliot
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
• "A partial set of remains"
Collected by J. Kitching
Primary reference: 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]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 149753: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 24.08.2013
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Reptilia | |
cf. Massospondylus sp. Owen 1854 sauropodomorph | |
Osteichthyes | |
Tritylodon sp. Owen 1884 mammaliamorph |