Also known as Maphutseng Bone Bed, Euskelosaurus cemetery

Where: Mohale's Hoek, Lesotho (30.2° S, 27.5° E: paleocoordinates 50.9° S, 1.5° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Lower Member (Elliot Formation), Norian (228.0 - 208.5 Ma)

• base of red beds, with "typical Molteno facies"; ca. 20 m below Maphutseng tracksite

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lacustrine; lenticular sandstone and claystone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by M. Motsoane, P. Ellenberger, A. Crompton in 1955-Feb 1956, 1959, 1963, 1970

Collection methods: quarrying, surface (float), surface (in situ),

Primary reference: P. Ellenberger. 1955. Note préliminaire sur les pistes et les restes osseux de Vertébrés du Basutoland (Afrique du Sud) [Prelimiinary note on the trackways and bony remains of vertebrates from Basutoland (southern Africa)]. Comptes Rendus des Séances de l'Academie des Sciences, Paris 240:889-891 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 56018: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 10.11.2005

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