ammonites
south of road, farm Mequatling (278) (Jurassic to of South Africa)

Where: Free State, South Africa (29.0° S, 27.4° E: paleocoordinates 42.7° S, 0.9° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

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

• bones from "a distinctive horizon within the Elliot Formation" - within the "Red Beds" of the upper Elliot Fm.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: "floodplain"; concretionary, ferruginous, silty mudstone

• floodplain deposits
• sediments are "siltstones or silty mudstones", with some local lenticular sandstones; "the bones themselves are thickly encrusted by a nodulr iron-rich deposit"

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by J. W. Kitching & Huma in 1980; reposited in the BPI

Collection methods: surface (float), surface (in situ), mechanical,

Primary reference: M. A. Raath. 1980. The theropod dinosaur Syntarsus (Saurischia: Podokesauridae) discovered in South Africa. South African Journal of Science 76(8):375-376 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano] more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 48391: authorized by Matt Carrano, entered by Matt Carrano on 17.03.2005