Also known as Gigantoscelus type

Where: Limpopo, South Africa (23.8° S, 28.3° E: paleocoordinates 38.4° S, 3.0° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Springbok Flats Member (Bushveld Sandstone Formation), Hettangian to Hettangian (201.6 - 189.6 Ma)

• Previously reported as Late Triassic in age, but considered equivalent to the Early Jurassic Clarens Formation of southern South Africa (e.g. Smith et al. 1993. J. African Earth Sciences 16: 160)

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected in 1916

Primary reference: S. H. Haughton. 1924. The fauna and stratigraphy of the Stormberg Series. Annals of the South African Museum 12:323-497 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano] more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 36734: authorized by Matt Carrano, entered by Matt Carrano on 11.02.2004