Also known as Hortalotarsus type, Eagles Crag
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: Clarens Formation (Stormberg Group), Pliensbachian (190.8 - 182.7 Ma)
• = Cave Sandstone
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by W. H. Wallace in 1888
Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical,
• discovered by William Horner Wallace
Primary reference: H. G. Seeley. 1892. Contribution to a knowledge of the Saurischia of Europe and Africa. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London 48:188-191 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 36753: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 12.02.2004
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Reptilia | |
Hortalotarsus skirtopodus n. gen. n. sp.
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