Also known as near Mount Fletcher
Where: Eastern Cape, South Africa (30.4° S, 28.5° E: paleocoordinates 44.5° S, 0.6° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Upper Member (Elliot Formation), Hettangian to Hettangian (201.3 - 190.8 Ma)
• "Red Beds", upper part of Elliot Fm.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; muddy sandstone and sandy mudstone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by A. L. du Toit
Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical,
• SAM: Iziko South African Museum, Cape Town
Primary reference: S. H. Haughton. 1915. A new thecodont from the Stormberg beds. Annals of the South African Museum 12:98-105 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 36670: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 09.02.2004
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Sphenosuchus acutus n. gen. n. sp.
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