Thejane-Maphutseng tracksite (zone A/5): Hettangian - Sinemurian, Lesotho
collected by P. Ellenberger
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Reptilia
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aff. Anomoepus sp.
Hitchcock 1848
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6 individuals | |||||||||
| "aviform tracks...close to Anomoepus" | ||||||||||
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= Trisauropodiscus galliforma n. sp.
Ellenberger 1970
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Ellenberger 1970 | |||||||||
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Trisauropodiscus levis n. sp.
Ellenberger 1970
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Ellenberger 1970 | 3 individuals | ||||||||
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Trisauropodiscus phasianiforma n. sp.
Ellenberger 1970
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Ellenberger 1970 | 3 individuals | ||||||||
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Trisauropodiscus popompoi n. sp.
(Ellenberger 1970)
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Ellenberger 1970 | 1 individual | ||||||||
| misspelling Trisauropodiscus pompompoi | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | Lesotho | State/province: | Mohale's Hoek |
| Coordinates: | 30.2° South, 27.5° East (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 43.9° South, 1.6° West | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| Period: | Jurassic | Epoch: | Early/Lower Jurassic |
| 10 m.y. bin: | Jurassic 1 | ||
| Key time interval: | Hettangian - Sinemurian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 201.40000 - 192.90000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | not reported |
| Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | cast,trace |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
| Spatial orientation: | life position |
| Temporal resolution: | snapshot |
| Spatial resolution: | autochthonous |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | surface (in situ),observed (not collected) |
| Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis |
| Collectors: | P. Ellenberger |
Metadata
| Database number: | 56010 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Carrano | Enterer: | M. Carrano |
| Modifier: | M. Carrano | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2005-11-10 10:28:34 | Last modified: | 2017-05-23 16:34:15 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2005-11-10 10:28:34 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 15104. | ETE | F. Ellenberger and P. Ellenberger. 1958. Principaux types de pistes de Vertébrés dans les couches du Stormberg au Basutoland (Afrique du Sud) (Note préliminaire) [Principal types of vertebrate prints in the Stormberg beds of Basutoland (South Africa) (preliminary note)]. Comptes Rendus de la Société géologique de France 1958:65-67 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
Secondary references:
| 28154 | ETE | 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] |
| 70980 | P. Ellenberger. 1972. Contribution à la classification des Pistes de Vertébrés du Trias: Les types du Stormberg d’Afrique du Sud (I) [Contribution to the classification of Triassic vertebrate footprints: the types from the Stormberg of South Africa (I)]. Palaeovertebrata Mem. Ext.(1972):1-152 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano] | |
| 59099 | R. Furon. 1963. Geology of Africa. xii-377 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |