Also known as Thabana-Boroko

Where: Mohale's Hoek, Lesotho (30.2° S, 27.5° E: paleocoordinates 50.9° S, 1.5° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Lower Member (Elliot Formation), Norian (228.0 - 208.5 Ma)

• orig. lower Molteno Fm.; "Radioisotopic dating of detrital zircons from the site yielded a maximum depositional age of 215.4 ± 2.5 Ma, indicating that the host rocks formed in the middle-late Norian...the site is c. 15 m below the contact with the upper Elliot Formation and c. 20 m above the Maphutseng bone bed"

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; green sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: trace

Collected by P. Ellenberger

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

Primary reference: 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]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 206548: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 19.11.2019

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