Newlands (42) (Upper Elliot) (Jurassic to of South Africa)

Also known as Ladybrand

Where: Free State, South Africa (29.2° S, 27.3° E: paleocoordinates 42.9° S, 1.1° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Upper Member (Elliot Formation), Hettangian to Hettangian (201.3 - 190.8 Ma)

• listed as "middle" Elliot Fm.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the BPI

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: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 232325: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 08.11.2023

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Saurischia - Massospondylidae
cf. Massospondylus sp. Owen 1854 sauropodomorph
 Ornithischia -
cf. Fabrosaurus sp. Ginsburg 1964 Fabre's lizard
 Loricata - Protosuchidae
Baroqueosuchus sp. Busbey and Gow 1984 crocodilian