Funnystone Farm (Jurassic of South Africa)

Where: Eastern Cape, South Africa (31.0° S, 27.6° E: paleocoordinates 43.3° S, 4.6° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Massospondylus zone, Clarens Formation (Stormberg Group), Pliensbachian (190.8 - 182.7 Ma)

• = Cave Sandstone

•Dollman and Clark 2021: Funnystone farm is located stratigraphically within the Massospondylus Assemblage Zone, Clarens Formation (Viglietti et al. 2020). Our stratigraphic measurements of this site place SAM-PK-4013 approximately 65 m above the Elliot/ Clarens formation contact (Fig. 1). The stratigraphic position of Notochampsa therefore places it within the Pliensbachian (Bordy et al. 2020a, b).

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; sandstone

• Dollman and Clark 2021: It is an articulated specimen preserved in a very fine-grained, pale olive (10Y 6/2) sandstone block

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Mr Art Isted in 1911

Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical,

• Dollman and Clark 2021: Iziko South African Museum, Cape Town, South Africa

Primary reference: S. H. Haughton. 1924. The fauna and stratigraphy of the Stormberg Series. Annals of the South African Museum 12:323-497 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 36671: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 09.02.2004

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Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Loricata - Notochampsidae
Notochampsa istedana n. gen. n. sp.
Notochampsa istedana n. gen. n. sp. Broom 1904 crocodilian
Holotype: SAM-PK-4013 (partial skull exposed in dorsal view; right hemimandi- ble; right scapula; both coracoids; interclavicle; the proximal end of the right humerus; left forelimb (humerus, radius, carpus, metacarpus); partial left femur; left tibia; left fibula; dorsal osteoderms; and associated ribs.)