Velddrift (Pleistocene of South Africa)

Also known as Column 4

Where: South Africa (32.8° S, 18.2° E: paleocoordinates 32.8° S, 18.1° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Pleistocene (2.6 - 0.0 Ma)

• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: Lithostratigraphic relations are not discussed in text. AGE: Pleistocene, presumably. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: Unknown.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; unlithified siliciclastic sediments

• SPECIFIC LITHOLOGY: Unknown. LITHIFICATION: Unknown. Assumed unlithified as it is described as a "raised beach".

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: COLLECTOR: Unknown. REPOSITORY: Originally reported by Krige, 1927.

Primary reference: K. H. Barnard. 1962. Revised list of South African late Tertiary and Pleistocene marine Mollusca. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Africa 36(4):179-196 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 122936: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 07.01.2012, edited by Jocelyn Sessa

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• COVERAGE: Exhaustive for mollusca. NOMENCLATURE: Not an authoritative publication, and with somewhat antiquated nomenclature, though with species-resolution identifications.
Gastropoda
 Sorbeoconcha - Naticidae
Natica ? queketti moon snail
 Sorbeoconcha - Ranellidae
Cymatium dolarium triton shell
"Argobuccinum argus" = Argobuccinum pustulosum Solander and Lightfoot 1786 triton shell
 Neogastropoda - Buccinidae
Burnupena cincta true whelk
 Neogastropoda - Nassariidae
 Ptenoglossa - Thaididae
"Thais squamosa" = Sistrum squamosum
"Thais squamosa" = Sistrum squamosum Pease 1868 snail
 Patellogastropoda - Patellidae
Bivalvia
 Hiatellida - Hiatellidae
"Glycimeris ? queketti" = Glycymeris
"Glycimeris ? queketti" = Glycymeris clam
 Cardiida - Mactridae
"Schizodesma ? spengleri" = Scissodesma, Lutraria oblonga
"Schizodesma ? spengleri" = Scissodesma clam
Lutraria oblonga Gmelin 1791 clam
 Cardiida - Tellinidae
Tellina trilatera tellin clam
 Cardiida - Donacidae
Donax serra Roding 1798 clam
 Mytilida - Mytilidae
Aulacomya crenatus, "Aulacomya ater" = Aulacomya atra
"Aulacomya ater" = Aulacomya atra Molina 1782 mussel
 Arcida - Arcidae