Lesotho
Collections(s): 34 Site(s)
north flank, Likhoele Mountain (UCL) : Mafeteng - ? 7887 7893 12138 12660 14837 24338 25375 61518 northern flank of Likhoele Mountain, near settlement of Mafeteng, Lesotho (then Basutoland).- Ft. Hartley, Likhoele (UCL) : Quthing - ? 7893 12660 24338 25375 between Fort Hartley and Cutting Camp, SW Lesotho, about 75 S of Maseru. Coordinates are for halfway between Fort Hartley and Cutting Camp.
- Telle River : Mohale's Hoek - ? 25375 28154 35696 near the Telle River, Lesotho; Palmietfontein map
- Sauropodomorpha identifié comme Euskelosaurus sp.
- north flank, Likhoele Mountain (MNHN) : Mafeteng - ? 7893 14837 14838 14867 25375 60341 61518 northern flank of Likhoele Mountain, near settlement of Mafeteng, Lesotho (then Basutoland).
- Ornithischia identifié comme Fabrosaurus australis n. gen. n. sp.
- Lesothosaurus
- Pokane (UCL/BMNH) : Quthing - ? 14837 25375 near Pokane, Lesotho
- Masitise 1 (MNHN) : Quthing - ? 10598 14839 locality uncertain, but "probably" from near Masitise (= Masitisi), Quthing district, between Alwynskop and Moyeni
- Masitise 2 (MNHN) : Quthing - ? 10109 10598 14839 25375 from near Masitise (= Masitisi), Quthing district, between Alwynskop and Moyeni; Palmietfontein map
- Leribe tracksite (zone B/4) : Leribe - ? 15104 28154 65678 69455 70980 90805
- Thotobolo ea 'Ma-beata (zone A/4) : Mohale's Hoek - ? 16652 16653 28077 28154 35638 57883 59099 62678 72974 78574 86234 at foot of hill, a few meters from native huts, called Thotobolo ea 'Ma-beata, near Maphutseng, Mohale's-Hook district (Mohale's Hoek); later termed the "Maphutseng Euskelosaurus cemetery"
- Phuthiatsana tracksite (zone A/3) : Maseru - ? 15109 28154 70980 86234 near the Phuthiatsana ford on the route from Maseru to Thaba-Bosiu, two slabs - North Slab and South Slab. <1 km to the southwest of the Phuthiatsana River bridge on road B21 (GPS: 29°21′30.02′′S, 27°36′ 35.61′′E
- Theropoda
- Prosauropoda identifié comme Pseudotetrasauropus acutunguis n. sp.
- Thabana-Morena (zone A/6) : Mafeteng - ? 16646 25375 28154 43779 57883 Thabana-Morena (Seboka) mountain 15 km SE of Mafeteng and 4–5 km S of Thabana-Moreno village
- Meroktenos thabanensis identifié comme Melanorosaurus thabanensis n. sp.
- Noosi (UCL) : Qacha's Nek - ? 14203 25375 43932 61518 78790 streamside exposure, Noosi village, 5.1 mi E of Whitehill, S Lesotho; located where road to Qacha's Nek crosses stream, just N of road and about 20 ft below a small waterfall
- Abrictosaurus consors identifié comme Lycorhinus consors n. sp.
- Thaba Tseou : Qacha's Nek - ? 25375 Thaba Tseou, Pack Ox Nek map
- Mokkanametsong tracksite (zone B/2) : Quthing - ? 28154 30917 77042 Mokkanametsong, 1 km W of Moyeni
- Trisauropodiscus superavipes
- Pokane-Boke : ? - ? 28154 near Pokane-Boke, Lesotho
- Orange River Valley : Qacha's Nek - ? 25375 34018 63959 "Orange River Valley in the Qacha's Nek Province"
- Ha Ralekoala : Qacha's Nek - ? 34260 remote site in northern Lesotho, near Ha Ralekoala, Quacha's Nek district, not far from Sekake
- Morobong Hill : Mohale's Hoek - ? 25375 35306 Coordinates from Kitching & Raath (1984)
- Leribe-Subeng : Leribe - ? 25375 35638
- Sekakes (Lower Elliot) : Qacha's Nek - ? 25375 Pack Ox Nek map sheet
- Sauropodomorpha identifié comme Euskelosaurus sp.
- Maboloka : Mafeteng - ? 25375
- Likhoele (zone A/5) : Mafeteng - ? 25375 28154
- Sauropodomorpha identifié comme Euskelosaurus sp.
- Botsabelo : Maseru - ? 25375
- north of eastern block, Mabloka Mountain : Mafeteng - ? 43932 "Both specimens were found "on the 6500' cave sst plateau lying north of the eastern block of Mabloka Mt.". The specimens were collected by Prof. Kenneth Kermack and Mrs Francis Mussett as part of the 1968 University of London expedition"
- Whitehill : Qacha's Nek - ? 43932 ‘Whitehill’, Qacha’s Nek District, Lesotho. Whitehill (or White Hill) is a small settlement on the Orange, or Senqu, River
- Likhoele-Qobete (zone A/4) : Mafeteng - ? 28154 at Likhoele-Qobete
- Boleka (zone A/6) : Mafeteng - ? 28154 Boleka
- Mesitsaneng (zone A/6) : Mohale's Hoek - ? 28154 Mesitsaneng
- Mahlakeng II (zone A/6) : Mafeteng - ? 25375 28154 Mahlakeng II
- Matsepe (zone B/1) : Mafeteng - ? 25375 28154 Matsepe, near Mafeteng; 40 km NW of Kubake and close to Likhoele
- Leribe-Coillard (zone B/5) : ? - ? 28154 Leribe-Coillard
- Dinosaur exposure, Likhoele Mountain : Mafeteng - ? 74894 Likhoele Mountain, near Mafeteng, Mafeteng District, Lesotho, from a quarry named ‘Dinosaur exposure’ (K.A. Kermack, unpubl. field notes).
- 5 km southeast of Likhoele : Mafeteng - ? 25375 86359 Crompton (1964) reported this site as near village of Tsekong, in the mountains ca. 4 mi SE of Mafeteng, but according to Kitching and Raath (1984), Gow said it was actually from 5 km SE of Likhoele
- site 48, Lihkoele farm : Mafeteng - ? 52036 93073 "m site 48 of the Likhoele farm, Mafeteng, Lesotho, although there is some doubt as to the accuracy of this locality data."
Publication(s)
- R. A. Thulborn. 1970. The skull of Fabrosaurus australis, a Triassic ornithischian dinosaur. Palaeontology 13(3):414-432
- R. A. Thulborn. 1972. The post-cranial skeleton of the Triassic ornithischian dinosaur Fabrosaurus australis. Palaeontology 15(1):29-60
- A. P. Santa Luca. 1984. Postcranial remains of Fabrosauridae (Reptilia: Ornithischia) from the Stormberg of southern Africa. Palaeontologia Africana 25:151-180
- P. M. Galton. 1978. Fabrosauridae, the basal family of ornithischian dinosaurs (Reptilia: Ornithischia). Paläontologische Zeitschrift 52(1/2):138-159
- R. J. Butler. 2005. The 'fabrosaurid' ornithischian dinosaurs of the Upper Elliot Formation (Lower Jurassic) of South Africa and Lesotho. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 145(2):175-218
- A. J. Charig and A. W. Crompton. 1974. The alleged synonymy of Lycorhinus and Heterodontosaurus. Annals of the South African Museum 64:167-189
- 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
- D. B. Weishampel and J. B. Weishampel. 1983. Annotated localities of ornithopod dinosaurs: implications to Mesozoic paleobiogeography. The Mosasaur 1:43-87
- P. Ellenberger. 1970. Les niveaux paléontologiques de première apparition des mammifères primoridaux en Afrique du Sud et leur ichnologie. Establissement de zones stratigraphiques detaillees dans le Stormberg du Lesotho (Afrique du Sud) (Trias Supérieur à Jurassique) [The paleontological levels of the first appearance of primordial mammals in southern Africa and their ichnology. Establishment of detailed stratigraphic zones in the Stormberg of Lesotho (southern Africa) (Upper Triassic to Jurassic). In: S. H. Haughton (ed.), Second Symposium on Gondwana Stratigraphy and Paleontology, International Union of Geological Sciences. Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, Pretoria
- A. M. Yates. 2007. Solving a dinosaurian puzzle: the identity of Aliwalia rex Galton. Historical Biology 19(1):93-123
- L. Ginsburg. 1964. Découverte d'un Scélidosaurien (Dinosaure ornithischien) dans le Trias supérieur du Basutoland [Discovery of a scelidosaurian (ornithischian dinosaur) in the Upper Triassic of Basutoland]. Comptes Rendus de l'Académie des Sciences à Paris 258:2366-2368
- F. Knoll and B. Battail. 2001. New ornithischian remains from the Upper Elliot Formation (Lower Jurassic) of Lesotho and stratigraphical dsitribution of southern African fabrosaurids. Géobios 34(4):415-421
- P. J. Currie and K. Padian. 1997. Institute de Paléontologie, Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris. Encyclopedia of Dinosaurs
- F. Knoll. 2002. New skull of Lesothosaurus (Dinosauria: Ornithischia) from the Upper Elliot Formation (Lower Jurassic) of southern Africa. Géobios 35(5):595-603
- F. Knoll. 2002. Nearly complete skull of Lesothosaurus (Dinosauria: Ornithischia) from the Upper Elliot Formation (Lower Jurassic: Hettangian) of Lesotho. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 22(2):238-243
- P. C. Sereno. 1991. Lesothosaurus, "fabrosaurids," and the early evolution of Ornithischia. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 11(2):168-197
- F. Ellenberger and P. Ellenberger. 1958. Principaux types de pistes de Vertébrés dans les couches du Stormberg au Basutoland (Afrique du Sud) (Note préliminaire) [Principal types of vertebrate prints in the Stormberg beds of Basutoland (South Africa) (preliminary note)]. Comptes Rendus de la Société géologique de France 1958:65-67
- M. G. Lockley, S. G. Lucas, and A. P. Hunt. 2006. Evazoum and the renaming of Northern Hemisphere “Pseudotetrasauropus”: implications for tetrapod ichnotaxonomy at the Triassic-Jurassic boundary. The Triassic-Jurassic Terrestrial Transition. New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 37:199-206
- F. Ellenberger, P. Ellenberger, and L. Ginsburg. 1970. Les Dinosaures du Trias et du Lias en France et en Afrique du Sud, d'après les pistes qu'ils ont laissées [The Triassic and Liassic dinosaurs in France and South Africa, after their prints]. Bulletin de la Société Géologique de France, 7e série 12(1):151-159
- P. Ellenberger. 1972. Contribution à la classification des Pistes de Vertébrés du Trias: Les types du Stormberg d’Afrique du Sud (I) [Contribution to the classification of Triassic vertebrate footprints: the types from the Stormberg of South Africa (I)]. Palaeovertebrata Mem. Ext.(1972):1-152
- J. R. Foster, J. D. Harris, and A. R. Milner, E. M. Bordy, L. Sciscio, D. Castanera, M. Belvedere, L. Xing, M. G. Lockley. 2025. Jurassic vertebrate tracks and traces. Vertebrate Ichnology: Tetrapod Tracks and Trackways
- P. Ellenberger. 1955. Note préliminaire sur les pistes et les restes osseux de Vertébrés du Basutoland (Afrique du Sud) [Prelimiinary note on the trackways and bony remains of vertebrates from Basutoland (southern Africa)]. Comptes Rendus des Séances de l'Academie des Sciences, Paris 240:889-891
- F. Ellenberger and L. Ginsburg. 1966. Le gisement de Dinosauriens triasiques de Maphutseng (Basutoland) et l'origine des Sauropodes [The Triassic dinosaur locality of Maphutseng (Basutoland) and the origin of sauropods]. Comptes Rendus de l'Académie des Sciences à Paris, Série D 262:444-447
- F.-X. Gauffre. 1993. Biochronostratigraphy of the lower Elliot Formation (southern Africa) and preliminary results on the Maphutseng dinosaur (Saurischia: Prosauropoda) from the same formation of Lesotho. The Nonmarine Triassic. New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 3:147-149
- F. Knoll. 2004. Review of the tetrapod fauna of the "Lower Stormberg Group" of the main Karoo Basin (southern Africa): implication for the age of the Lower Elliot Formation. Bulletin de la Société Géologique de France 175(1):73-83
- C. Peyre de Fabrègues and R. Allain. 2016. New material and revision of Melanorosaurus thabanensis, a basal sauropodomorph from the Upper Triassic of Lesotho. PeerJ 4:e1639:1-32
- R. Furon. 1963. Geology of Africa.
- O. A. Reig. 1970. The Proterosuchia and the early evolution of the archosaurs; an essay about the origin of a major taxon. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 139(5):229-292
- C. Peyre de Fabrègues and R. Allain. 2020. Kholumolumo ellenbergerorum, gen. et sp. nov., a new early sauropodomorph from the lower Elliot Formation (Upper Triassic) of Maphutseng, Lesotho. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 39(6):e1732996:1-32
- B. W. McPhee, A. M. Yates, and J. N. Choiniere, F. Abdala. 2014. The complete anatomy and phylogenetic relationships of Antetonitrus ingenipes (Sauropodiformes, Dinosauria): implications for the origins of Sauropoda. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 171(1):151-205
- L. Sciscio, E. M. Bordy, and M. G. Lockley, M. Abrahams. 2023. Basal sauropodomorph locomotion: ichnological lessons from the Late Triassic trackways of bipeds and quadrupeds (Elliot Formation, main Karoo Basin). PeerJ 11:e15970:1-44
- F. Ellenberger, P. Ellenberger, and J. Fabre, C. Mendrez. 1963. Deux nouvelles dalles à pistes de Vertébrés fossiles découvertes au Basutoland (Afrique du Sud) [Two new sites of fossil vertebrate prints discovered in Basutoland (South Africa)]. Comptes Rendus de la Société géologique de France 1963:315-317
- F.-X. Gauffre. 1993. The most recent Melanorosauridae (Saurischia, Prosauropoda), Lower Jurassic of Lesotho, with remarks on the prosauropod phylogeny. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie Monatshefte 1993(11):648-654
- F. Knoll. 2005. The tetrapod fauna of the Upper Elliot and Clarens formations in the main Karoo Basin (South Africa and Lesotho). Bulletin de la Société Géologique de France 176(1):81-91
- R. A. Thulborn. 1974. A new heterodontosaurid dinosaur (Reptilia: Ornithischia) from the Upper Triassic red beds of Lesotho. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 55:151-175
- L. B. Porro, R. J. Butler, and P. M. Barrett, S. Moore-Fay, R. L. Abel. 2011. New heterodontosaurid specimens from the Lower Jurassic of southern Africa and the early ornithischian dinosaur radiation. Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 101:351-366
- D. B. Norman, A. W. Crompton, and R. J. Butler, L. B. Porro, A. J. Charig. 2011. The Lower Jurassic ornithischian dinosaur Heterodontosaurus tucki Crompton & Charig, 1962: cranial anatomy, functional morphology, taxonomy, and relationships. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 163:182-276
- P. Ellenberger. 1974. Contribution à la classification des pistes de Vertébrés du Trias: les types du Stormberg d'Afrique du Sud (IIème partie: Le Stormberg superieur - I. Le biome de la zone B/1 ou niveau de Moyeni: ses biocénoses) [Contribution to the classification of the vertebrate tracks of the Triassic: the types from the Stormberg of South Africa (2nd part: The upper Stormberg - I. The biome of zone B/1 or Moyeni level: its biocoenoses]. Palaeovertebrata Mém. Ext.(1974):1-147
- E. M. Bordy. 2021. Darting towards Storm Shelter: a minute dinosaur trackway from southern Africa. South African Journal of Science 117(3/4):9145:1-11
- D. Nash. 1968. A crocodile from the Upper Triassic of Lesotho. Jounal of Zoology, London 156:163-179
- K. N. Dollman, P. A. Viglietti, and J. N. Choiniere. 2019. A new specimen of Orthosuchus stormbergi (Nash 1968) and a review of the distribution of Southern African Lower Jurassic crocodylomorphs. Historical Biology 31(5):653-664
- F. Knoll. 2010. A primitive sauropodomorph from the upper Elliot Formation of Lesotho. Geological Magazine 147(6):814-829
- A. W. Crompton and F. Ellenberger. 1957. On a new cynodont from the Molteno Beds and the origin of the tritylodontids. Annals of the South African Museum 44:1-14
- E. H. Bodenham and P. M. Barrett. 2020. A new specimen of the sauropodomorph dinosaur Ignavusaurus rachelis from the Early Jurassic of Lesotho. Palaeontologia Africana 54:48-55
- A. W. Crompton. 1964. A preliminary description of a new mammal from the Upper Triassic of South Africa. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 142(3):441-452
- E. D. Mooney, T. Maho, and D. C. T. Rowe, D. Scott, R. R. Reisz. 2025. Massospondylus embryos and hatchling provide new insights into early sauropodomorph ontogeny. Swiss Journal of Palaeontology 144(1):44:1-17
- P. Godefroit, S. M. Sinitsa, and D. Dhouailly, Y. L. Bolotsky, A. V. Sizov, M. E. McNamara, M. J. Benton, O. Spagna. 2014. A Jurassic ornithischian dinosaur from Siberia with both feathers and scales. Science 345(6):451-455
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