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 | |
Massospondylus carinatus Owen 1854 sauropodomorph |