Blikana Mountain, Transkei (zone A/4) (Triassic to of South Africa)

Also known as BMNH-SAM

Where: Eastern Cape, South Africa (30.6° S, 27.6° E: paleocoordinates 50.1° S, 1.5° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Lower Member (Elliot Formation), Norian to Norian (228.0 - 201.3 Ma)

• lowermost part of lower Elliot Formation

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by C. E. Gow in 1962

Collection methods: quarrying, chemical, mechanical, acetic,

• "The specimen was prepared by immersion in 12% acetic acid after all exposed bone surfaces had been coated with perspex dissolved in chloroform"

Primary reference: Anonymous. 1964. Dinosaur evolution concepts revisted. Scientific South Africa 1:337 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 35295: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 25.11.2003

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Saurischia -
Blikanasaurus cromptoni n. gen. n. sp.
Blikanasaurus cromptoni n. gen. n. sp. Galton and Van Heerden 1985 sauropodomorph
"BĂȘte de Blikana"