Where: Free State, South Africa (28.6° S, 28.2° E: paleocoordinates 42.7° S, 0.2° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Upper Member (Elliot Formation), Hettangian to Hettangian (201.3 - 190.8 Ma)
• top of Red Beds = upper Elliot Fm.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by A. R. Walker in the 1920s
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 36686: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 09.02.2004
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Reptilia | |
"Thecodontosaurus skirtopodus" = Hortalotarsus skirtopodus
"Thecodontosaurus skirtopodus" = Hortalotarsus skirtopodus Seeley 1892 prosauropod |