SOUTH AFRICA

FREE STATE PROVINCE

25 KM SOUTHEAST OF THE TOWN OF CLARENS

BEGINSEL FARM

THE ELLIOT FORMATION

UPPER ELLIOT FORMATION

HETTANGIAN-LOWER SINEMURIAN STAGE

LOWER LIAS EPOCH

EARLY JURASSIC

STEM: TETRAPODA GOODRICH, 1930

SUPERCLASS: AMNIOTA HAECKEL, 1866

CLASS: REPTILIA LAURENTI, 1768

SUBCLASS: DIAPSIDA OSBORN, 1904

SUPERLEGION: NEODIAPSIDA BENTON, 1985

LEGION: ARCHOSAUROMORPHA HUENE, 1946

SUBLEGION: DINOSAUROMORPHA BENTON & NORMAN IN BENTON, 1985

INFRALEGION: DINOSAURIFORMES NOVAS, 1992

SUPERCOHORT: DINOSAURIA OWEN, 1842

COHORT: ORNITHISCHIFORMES COOPER, 1985

SUPERORDER: SAUROPODOMORPHA HUENE, 1932

GRANDORDER: BRONTOSAURIA OLSHEVSKY, 1991 (emend)

SAUROPODIFORMES

Incertae sedis

*Ledumahadi mafube

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SOUTH AFRICA

ORANGE FREE STATE

‘GOLDEN GATE’ SOUTH OF CLARENE

UPPER ELLIOT FORMATION

HETTANGIAN-LOWER SINEMURIAN STAGE

LOWER LIAS EPOCH

EARLY JURASSIC

STEM: TETRAPODA GOODRICH, 1930

SUPERCLASS: AMNIOTA HAECKEL, 1866

CLASS: REPTILIA LAURENTI, 1768

SUBCLASS: DIAPSIDA

SUPERLEGION: NEODIAPSIDA BENTON, 1985

LEGION: ARCHOSAUROMORPHA HUENE, 1946

SUPERCOHORT: CRUROTARSI SERENO & ARCUCCI, 1990

COHORT: CROCODYLOTARSI BENTON & CLARK, 1988

MAGNORDER: SUCHIA KREBS, 1974

SUPERORDER: CROCODYLOMORPHA WALKER, 1968

ORDER: INCERTAE SEDIS

SUBORDER: SPHENOSUCHIA BONAPARTE, 1971

Family: SPHENOSUCHIDAE Huene, 1922

*Clarencea gracilis
= Clarensia gracilis

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SOUTH AFRICA

FREE (ORANGE FREE) STATE

GOLDEN GATE HIGHLANDS NATIONAL PARK

NORTH FACING UPPER RED BED

UPPER ELLIOT FORMATION

HETTANGIAN-LOWER SINEMURIAN STAGE

LOWER LIAS EPOCH

EARLY JURASSIC

STEM: TETRAPODA GOODRICH, 1930

SUPERCLASS: AMNIOTA HAECKEL, 1866

CLASS: REPTILIA LAURENTI, 1768

SUBCLASS: DIAPSIDA OSBORN, 1903

SUPERLEGION: NEODIAPSIDA BENTON, 1985

LEGION: ARCHOSAUROMORPHA HUENE, 1946

SUBLEGION: DINOSAUROMORPHA BENTON & NORMAN IN BENTON, 1985

INFRALEGION: DINOSAURIFORMES NOVAS, 1992

SUPERCOHORT: DINOSAURIA OWEN, 1842

COHORT: ORNITHISCHIFORMES COOPER, 1985

MAGNORDER: ORNITHISCHIA SEELEY, 1888

SUPERORDER: NEORNITHISCHIA COOPER, 1985

GRANDORDER: ORNITHOPODA MARSH, 1871

MICRORDER: MARGINOCEPHALIA SERENO, 1986

ORDER: PACHYCEPHALOSAURIA MARYANSKA & OSMOLSKA, 1974

SUBORDER: HETERODONTOSAURIA COOPER, 1985 (emend)

Family: HETERODONTOSAURIDAE Kuhn, 1966

Lycorhinus angustidens
= *Lanasaurus scalpridens


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SOUTH AFRICA

ORANGE FREE STATE

FARM SUNNYSIDE

UPPER ELLIOT FORMATION

HETTANGIAN-LOWER SINEMURIAN STAGE

LOWER LIAS EPOCH

EARLY JURASSIC

STEM: TETRAPODA GOODRICH, 1930

SUPERCLASS: AMNIOTA HAECKEL, 1866

CLASS: REPTILIA LAURENTI, 1768

SUBCLASS: DIAPSIDA OSBORN, 1903

SUPERLEGION: NEODIAPSIDA BENTON, 1985

LEGION: ARCHOSAUROMORPHA HUENE, 1946

SUPERCOHORT: CRUROTARSI SERENO & ARCUCCI, 1990

COHORT: CROCODYLOTARSI BENTON & CLARK, 1988

MAGNORDER: SUCHIA KREBS, 1974

SUPERORDER: CROCODYLOMORPHA WALKER, 1968

GRANDORDER: CROCODILIFORMES HAY, 1930

ORDER: PROTOSUCHIA emend MOOK, 1934

Superfamily: PROTOSUCHOIDEA Brown, 1933 (sensu Deraniyagala, 1939)

Family: PROTOSUCHIDAE Brown, 1933

Notochampsa sp

*Protosuchus haughtoni
= Baroqueosuchus haughtoni

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SOUTH AFRICA

ORANGE FREE STATE

FARM DAMPLAATS

UPPER ELLIOT FORMATION

HETTANGIAN-LOWER SINEMURIAN STAGE

LOWER LIAS EPOCH

EARLY JURASSIC

STEM: TETRAPODA GOODRICH, 1930

SUPERCLASS: AMNIOTA HAECKEL, 1866

CLASS: REPTILIA LAURENTI, 1768

SUBCLASS: DIAPSIDA OSBORN, 1903

SUPERLEGION: NEODIAPSIDA BENTON, 1985

LEGION: ARCHOSAUROMORPHA HUENE, 1946

SUPERCOHORT: CRUROTARSI SERENO & ARCUCCI, 1990

COHORT: CROCODYLOTARSI BENTON & CLARK, 1988

MAGNORDER: SUCHIA KREBS, 1974

SUPERORDER: CROCODYLOMORPHA WALKER, 1968

GRANDORDER: CROCODILIFORMES HAY, 1930

ORDER: PROTOSUCHIA emend MOOK, 1934

Superfamily: PROTOSUCHOIDEA Brown, 1933 (sensu Deraniyagala, 1939)

Family: PROTOSUCHIDAE Brown, 1933

Notochampsa sp

Protosuchus haughtoni
= Baroqueosuchus haughtoni

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SOUTH AFRICA

FREE STATE (ORANGE FREE STATE) PROVINCE

JORDAAN RIVER

NAAUPOORK KEK

ELLIOT FORMATION

HETTANGIAN-LOWER SINEMURIAN STAGE

LOWER LIAS EPOCH

EARLY JURASSIC

STEM: TETRAPODA GOODRICH, 1930

SUPERCLASS: AMNIOTA HAECKEL, 1866

CLASS: REPTILIA LAURENTI, 1768

SUBCLASS: DIAPSIDA OSBORN, 1903

SUPERLEGION: NEODIAPSIDA BENTON, 1985

LEGION: ARCHOSAUROMORPHA HUENE, 1946

SUBLEGION: DINOSAUROMORPHA BENTON & NORMAN IN BENTON, 1985

INFRALEGION: DINOSAURIFORMES NOVAS, 1992

SUPERCOHORT: DINOSAURIA OWEN, 1842

COHORT: ORNITHISCHIFORMES COOPER, 1985

SUPERORDER: SAUROPODOMORPHA HUENE, 1932

ORDER: PROSAUROPODA HUENE, 1920 (emend)

SUBORDER: PLATEOSAURIA TORNIER, 1913

Family: MASSOSPONDYLIDAE Huene, 1914

Massospondylus carinatus
= *Dromicosaurus gracilis

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SOUTH AFRICA

FREE (ORANGE FREE STATE) PROVINCE

MT. FLETCHER

PABALLONG

RED BEDS

UPPER ELLIOT FORMATION

HETTANGIAN/SINEMURIAN STAGE

LOWER LIAS EPOCH

EARLY JURASSIC

STEM: TETRAPODA GOODRICH, 1930

SUPERCLASS: AMNIOTA HAECKEL, 1866

CLASS: REPTILIA LAURENTI, 1768

SUBCLASS: SYNAPSIDA OSBORN, 1903

SUPERORDER: THERASPIDA BROOM, 1905

GRANDORDER: EUTHERAPSIDA

MICRORDER: NEOTHERAPSIDA

ORDER: THERIODONTIA OWEN, 1881

EUTHERIODONTIA

SUBORDER: CYNODONTIA OWEN, 1860

EPICYNODONTIA HOPSON & KITCHING, 2001

INFRAORDER: EUCYNODONTIA

MAMMALIAMORPHA ROWE, 1988

Superfamily: CHINQUODONTOIDEA Huene, 1936

Family: TRITHELEDONTIDAE Broom, 1912

*Trithelodon riconoi

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