ammonites
Masitise 2 (MNHN) (Jurassic to of Lesotho)

Also known as Masitisi

Where: Quthing, Lesotho (30.4° S, 27.5° E: paleocoordinates 44.0° S, 1.7° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Upper Elliot Formation (Stormberg Group), Hettangian to Hettangian (201.6 - 189.6 Ma)

• Upper Elliot Fm.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; red sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Ellenberger in 1963; reposited in the MNHN

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: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 55343: authorized by Matt Carrano, entered by Matt Carrano on 11.10.2005