Where: Eastern Cape, South Africa (30.7° S, 27.2° E: paleocoordinates 50.0° S, 2.1° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Lower Member (Elliot Formation), Norian to Norian (228.0 - 201.3 Ma)
• "Red Beds" = Elliot Fm.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Collected 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 36738: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 11.02.2004
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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"Plateosaurus cullingworthi" = Plateosauravus cullingworthi
"Plateosaurus cullingworthi" = Plateosauravus cullingworthi Haughton 1924 plateosaurid at least 10 specimens; unclear if a single individual is represented
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