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    The Elliot Formation is a geological formation and forms part of the Stormberg Group, the uppermost geological group that comprises the greater Karoo Supergroup...
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  • Choiniere, Jonah N. (2017). "The sauropodomorph biostratigraphy of the Elliot Formation of southern Africa: Tracking the evolution of Sauropodomorpha across...
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    These Clarens Formation cliffs frequently contain shallow caves and overhangs at the contact of the underlying Upper Elliot Formation (UEF) due to processes...
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    Lesothosaurus (category Elliot Formation)
    ornithischians, based on numerous skull and postcranial fossils from the Upper Elliot Formation. It had a simpler tooth and jaw anatomy than later ornithischians,...
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    an American paleontologist who led numerous field expeditions in Elliot Formation outcrop localities in South Africa. Blikanasaurus is only known from...
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    Heterodontosaurus (category Elliot Formation)
    was discovered at the Voyizane locality, in the Elliot Formation of the Stormberg Group of rock formations, 1,770 m (5,807 ft) above sea level, on Krommespruit...
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    closely related to the well known Placerias. It was found in the Lower Elliot Formation of South Africa, dated to the Norian of the Late Triassic period. The...
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    Dracovenator (category Elliot Formation)
    Dracovenator was discovered at the "Upper Drumbo Farm" locality in the upper Elliot Formation which is part of the Stormberg Group in Eastern Cape Province, South...
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    age of the Triassic. A specimen of an unnamed lessemsaurid from the Elliot Formation of South Africa probably dates to approximately 218 million years ago...
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    Pegomastax (category Elliot Formation)
    Pegomastax comes from the Red Beds, or upper Elliot Formation, of South Africa and Lesotho. This part of the formation is considered to be from the earliest...
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    and Raath described a partial snout of "S." rhodesiensis from the Elliot Formation in South Africa, but the material has been referred to Dracovenator...
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    from rocks of a similar age in South Africa belonging to the upper Elliot Formation. Yao et al. suggest that the common ancestor of these two genera likely...
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  • archosaur from the late Norian-early Rhaetian-age Upper Triassic Lower Elliot Formation of Lesotho. The type species is B. ferox. The holotype is a single...
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    Aliwal North, Dordrecht, Molteno, and Elliot. It extends as far north as Matatiele in the Eastern Cape. The formation's localities lie along the Drakensberg...
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    crocodile") is an extinct genus of crocodylomorph from the Early Jurassic Elliot Formation of South Africa, discovered and described early in the 20th century...
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    Massospondylus (category Elliot Formation)
    upper Elliot Formation near Fouriesburg, while Gyposaurus capensis is based on a fragmentary skeleton without skull discovered in the Clarens Formation near...
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    crocodylomorphs. Indeterminate large paracrocodylomorph material from the Lower Elliot Formation of South Africa may be even younger, late Rhaetian or possibly even...
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     declivis, is known from the Early Triassic Panchet Formation of the Damodar Valley and the Kamthi Formation of the Pranhita-Godavari Basin in India. Seven...
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    Dromicosaurus (category Elliot Formation)
    Hoepen in 1920 from a fragmentary skeleton he had discovered in the Elliot Formation in Free State. The name, lit. 'quick-walking lizard', alludes to the...
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    fossils are found in geologic formations that represent arid to semi-arid environments, including the Upper Elliot Formation of South Africa and the Purbeck...
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    Aetonyx (category Elliot Formation)
    Robert Broom in 1911 based on a fragmentary skeleton from the upper Elliot Formation found near Fouriesburg, Free State Province. Broom considered it as...
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    Eocursor (category Elliot Formation)
    Early Jurassic. Remains of this animal have been found in the Upper Elliot Formation and it is among the most completely known early ornithischians, shedding...
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    Upper Elliot Formation Walcott-Rust quarry Warrior Formation Washtenaw Community College Weardale Wetterstein limestone Wills Creek Formation Wren's...
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    original on 2023-06-04. Retrieved 2023-06-04. When: Lower Member (Elliot Formation), Norian to Norian (228.0 - 201.3 Ma) Chatterjee, S. 1987. A new theropod...
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  • histology of two sauropodiform specimens and one early sauropod from the Elliot Formation (South Africa), providing evidence that the three studied specimens...
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    Stormberg Group (category Geologic formations of Lesotho)
    South Africa. These formations are listed below (from oldest to youngest): Molteno Formation Elliot Formation Clarens Formation The Stormberg Group contains...
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    Bushveld Sandstone Clarens Formation Elliot Formation Triassic Elliot Formation Katberg Formation Molteno Formation Normandien Formation Cenozoic Algoa Group...
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    all of South Africa's crocodylomorph taxa, are confined to the upper Elliot Formation (UEF) in South Africa. In 1988 James Kitching found the holotype fossil...
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  • Ignavusaurus (category Elliot Formation)
    Jurassic in what is now Lesotho. Its fossils were found in the Upper Elliot Formation which is probably Hettangian in age (around 200 million years ago)...
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    Lycorhinus (category Elliot Formation)
    from the Early Jurassic (Hettangian to Sinemurian ages) strata of the Elliot Formation located in the Cape Province, South Africa. Lycorhinus, including the...
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