Thecodontosaurus site, Rosendal (zone B/4) (Jurassic of South Africa)

Where: Free State, South Africa (28.5° S, 27.9° E: paleocoordinates 41.3° S, 2.5° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

• = Cave Sandstone

•Bordy et al. 2020

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: mechanical,

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 36850: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 17.02.2004

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Saurischia - Massospondylidae
Massospondylus carinatus Owen 1854 sauropodomorph