Thabana-Morena (zone A/6) (Triassic to of Lesotho)

Also known as Seboka

Where: Mafeteng, Lesotho (29.9° S, 27.4° E: paleocoordinates 49.4° S, 1.4° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Lower Member (Elliot Formation), Norian to Norian (228.0 - 201.3 Ma)

• Upper Red Beds of the Thabana-Morena site originally thought to correspond to the Upper Elliot Formation and to the base of the Clarens Formation also known as the Massospondylus range zone - now assigned to the Lower Elliot Fm.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Ellenberger & L. Ginsburg in 1959-1963; reposited in the MNHN

Primary reference: P. Ellenberger. 1970. Les niveaux paléontologiques de première apparition des mammifères primoridaux en Afrique du Sud et leur ichnologie. Establissement de zones stratigraphiques detaillees dans le Stormberg du Lesotho (Afrique du Sud) (Trias Supérieur à Jurassique) [The paleontological levels of the first appearance of primordial mammals in southern Africa and their ichnology. Establishment of detailed stratigraphic zones in the Stormberg of Lesotho (southern Africa) (Upper Triassic to Jurassic). In: S. H. Haughton (ed.), Second Symposium on Gondwana Stratigraphy and Paleontology, International Union of Geological Sciences. Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, Pretoria 343-370 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 59291: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Kaitlin Maguire on 24.03.2006, edited by Matthew Carrano and Philip Mannion

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Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Saurischia -
"Melanorosaurus thabanensis n. sp." = Meroktenos thabanensis
"Melanorosaurus thabanensis n. sp." = Meroktenos thabanensis Gauffre 1993 sauropodomorph