Koingnaas/Swartlintjies 50m Complex (Pliocene of South Africa)

Where: Western Cape, South Africa (33.9° S, 18.4° E: paleocoordinates 34.0° S, 18.0° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Late/Upper Pliocene (3.6 - 2.6 Ma)

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: transition zone or lower shoreface; lithified mudstone

• Distal lower shoreface deposit
• Thick muddy distal lower shoreface deposits in bedrock depressions.

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Primary reference: B. Kensley and J. Pether. 1986. Late Tertiary and Early Quaternary Fossil Mollusca for the Hondeklip Area, Cape Province, South Africa. Annals of the South African Museum 97(6):141-225 [J. Sessa/L. Eccles]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 118306: authorized by Jocelyn Sessa, entered by Laurie Eccles on 12.10.2011, edited by Jocelyn Sessa

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Polyplacophora
 Chitonida - Chitonidae
cf. Chiton sp. Linnaeus 1758 chiton
Gastropoda
 Trochoidea - Turbinidae
Bolma anorophora n. sp. snail
 Trochoidea - Trochidae
Clanculus lutosus n. sp. Kensley and Pether 1986 top snail
 Lepetellida - Fissurellidae
Tugali barnardi Barnard 1963 snail
Fissurellidea aperta Sowerby 1825 snail
 Lepetellida - Haliotidae
Haliotis saldanhae Kensley 1972 abalone
 Neotaenioglossa - Calyptraeidae
Crepidula porcellana slipper shell
Calyptraea kilburni Kensley and Pether 1986 slipper shell
 Cerithioidea - Turritellidae
"Turritella declivis" = Gazameda declivis
"Turritella declivis" = Gazameda declivis Adams and Reeve 1850 turret shell
 Neogastropoda - Buccinidae
Pseudoliva lutulenta n. sp. Kensley and Pether 1986 true whelk
Melapium hawthornei n. sp. Kensley and Pether 1986 true whelk
 Neogastropoda - Nassariidae
 Neogastropoda - Terebridae
Terebra canisaxi n. sp. Kensley and Pether 1986 auger snail
 Neogastropoda - Turridae
 Neogastropoda - Muricidae
"Tritonalia bonaccorsii n. sp." = Ocenebra bonaccorsii, Nucella praecingulata
"Tritonalia bonaccorsii n. sp." = Ocenebra bonaccorsii Carrington and Kensley 1969 murex snail
Nucella praecingulata Haughton 1932 murex snail
 Sorbeoconcha - Ranellidae
Argobuccinum casus n. sp. Kensley and Pether 1986 triton shell
 Sorbeoconcha - Eratoidae
? Hespererato oppenheimeri Kensley and Pether 1986 snail
 Sorbeoconcha - Vermetidae
Vermetus sp. Daudin 1800 worm shell
 Heterostropha - Ringiculidae
 Opisthobranchia - Cylichnidae
Bivalvia
 Arcida - Arcidae
"Arca avellana" = Lamarcka avellana Lamarck 1819 clam
 Arcida - Glycymerididae
Glycymeris fulleri n. sp. Kensley and Pether 1986 clam
 Ostreida - Malleidae
Isognomon gariesensis n. sp. Kensley and Pether 1986 oyster
 Ostreida - Ostreidae
Striostrea margaritacea Lamarck 1819 oyster
 Pholadida - Pholadidae
Barnea truncata Say 1822 clam
 Pholadida - Corbulidae
 Cardiida - Erycinidae
 Cardiida - Veneridae
Dosinia sicarisinus n. sp. Kensley and Pether 1986 venus clam
 Cardiida - Mactridae
Lutraria sp. Lamarck 1799 clam
 Cardiida - Cardiidae
Cardium sp. Linnaeus 1758 cockle
 Cardiida - Tellinidae
"Leporimetis hanleyi" = Psammotreta (Leporimetis) tellin clam
Gastrana rostrata tellin clam
 Cardiida - Semelidae
Theora sp. Adams and A 1866 clam
 Carditida - Condylocardiidae
 Nuculanida - Nuculanidae
Nuculana bisupidata pointed nut clam
Scaphopoda
 Dentaliida - Dentaliidae
Dentalium sp. Linnaeus 1758 tusk shell