St. Michaels Mission (Jurassic to of South Africa)

Where: Eastern Cape, South Africa (30.5° S, 27.4° E: paleocoordinates 44.1° S, 1.8° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the BPI

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: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 75193: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 26.09.2007

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Taxonomic list

Osteichthyes
 Therapsida - Tritheledontidae
Pachygenelus sp. Watson 1913 mammaliamorph
Reptilia
 Loricata -
Crocodylia indet. crocodilian
"crocodilian remains"