Masitisi-Cave (zone B/4): Pliensbachian, Lesotho
collected by P. Ellenberger

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Osteichthyes
Osteichthyes indet. Huxley 1880
scale
Amphibia
Lehahichnus coquinaris n. gen., n. sp. Ellenberger 1970
3 types: A, B, C
Reptilia - Grallatoridae
Neotrisauropus lambereshei n. sp. Ellenberger 1970
recombined as Grallator lambereshei
see common names

Geography
Country:Lesotho State/province:Quthing
Coordinates: 30.4° South, 27.5° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:42.8° South, 4.3° West
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Altitude:1671 meters
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Jurassic Epoch:Early/Lower Jurassic
Stage:Pliensbachian 10 m.y. bin:Jurassic 2
Key time interval:Pliensbachian
Age range of interval:192.90000 - 184.20000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Stormberg Formation:Clarens
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: base of Cave Sandstone; zone B/4

Bordy et al. 2020
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:red sandstone
Includes fossils?Y
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,mold/impression,trace
Degree of concentration:concentrated
Size of fossils:macrofossils,mesofossils
Spatial orientation:life position
Preservation of anatomical detail:medium
Associated major elements:some
Disassociated major elements:some
Disassociated minor elements:some
Temporal resolution:snapshot
Spatial resolution:autochthonous
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:surface (in situ),observed (not collected)
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collectors:P. Ellenberger
Metadata
Also known as:Masitise
Database number:84065
Authorizer:M. Carrano Enterer:M. Carrano
Modifier:G. Varnham Research group:vertebrate
Created:2008-09-16 14:37:06 Last modified:2022-03-07 10:34:02
Access level:the public Released:2008-09-16 14:37:06
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

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]