Also known as Ladybrand

Where: Free State, South Africa (29.1° S, 27.3° E: paleocoordinates 42.8° S, 1.1° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Upper Member (Elliot Formation), Hettangian to Hettangian (201.3 - 190.8 Ma)

• Originally thought to be from the lower member, but McPhee et al. (2017) demonstrate that it is more likely to be from the upper member

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: "floodplain"; red siltstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by J. W. Kitching in the 1980s; reposited in the BPI

Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical,

Primary reference: J. W. Kitching and M. A. Raath. 1984. Fossils from the Elliot and Clarens Formations (Karoo Sequence) of the northeastern Cape, Orange Free State and Lesotho, and a suggested biozonation based on tetrapods. Palaeontologia Africana 25:111-125 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 39659: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 02.06.2004, edited by Richard Butler

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