Avontuur A 50m complex 3: Late/Upper Pliocene, South Africa

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
Afrocominella capensis
Drilla tempestae n. sp.
Namamurex odontostoma
Gastropoda - Turritellidae
Turritella carinifera Deshayes 1824
recombined as Turritella (Torquesia) carinifera
Gastropoda - Neotaenioglossa - Calyptraeidae
Calyptraea viridarena
Calyptraea kilburni Kensley and Pether 1986
Calyptraea kilburni nom. nov.
Crepidula deprima n. sp. Kensley and Pether 1986
Gastropoda - Ranellidae
Argobuccinum casus n. sp. Kensley and Pether 1986
Gastropoda - Eratoidae
? Hespererato oppenheimeri Kensley and Pether 1986
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Muricidae
Nucella praecingulata (Haughton 1932)
Trophon carringtoni n. sp. Kensley and Pether 1986
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Nassariidae
? Fusus faurei
? Nassarius litorafontis
Bullia annulata (Lamarck 1816)
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Buccinidae
Burnupena papyracea
Burnupena aestus n. sp. Kensley and Pether 1986
Triumphis dilemma Kilburn and Tankard 1975
recombined as Austriumphis dilemma
Bullia digitalis (Dillwyn 1817)
original and current combination Buccinum digitale
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Fasciolariidae
Fasciolaria dinglei n. sp. Kensley and Pether 1986
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Turridae
? Turris nigrovitta
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Terebridae
Terebra canisaxi n. sp. Kensley and Pether 1986
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Conidae
Conus mozambicus
Gastropoda - Turbinidae
Turbo cidaris
Gastropoda - Trochidae
Clanculus murrayi
Oxystele sinensis
Gastropoda - Lepetellida - Fissurellidae
Amblychilepas scutellum (Gmelin 1791)
Diodora elevata
Fissurella robusta
Gastropoda - Lepetellida - Haliotidae
Haliotis saldanhae Kensley 1972
Gastropoda - Patellidae
Patella barbara Linnaeus 1758
recombined as Scutellastra barbara
Patella argenvillei
Patella hoffmani n. sp. Kensley and Pether 1986
Patella hendeyi n. sp. Kensley and Pether 1986
Polyplacophora - Chitonida - Chitonidae
cf. Chiton sp. Linnaeus 1758
Bivalvia - Mytilida - Mytilidae
Perna perna (Linnaeus 1758)
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Ostreidae
Ostrea cf. subradiosa Bohm 1926
Striostrea margaritacea (Lamarck 1819)
Bivalvia - Arcida - Arcidae
? Arca halmyrus
Bivalvia - Pholadida - Corbulidae
? Corbula palaegialus
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Mactridae
Lutraria sp. Lamarck 1799
Standella namaquensis
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Veneridae
Chamelea krigei
Tivela cf. compressa
Venus verrucosa
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Donacidae
Donax haughtoni Carrington and Kensley 1969
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Tellinidae
Tellina ponsonbyi
Gastrana fibrosa
Bivalvia - Carditida - Condylocardiidae
Carditella calipsamma
see common names

Geography
Country:South Africa State/province:Western Cape
Coordinates: 33.9° South, 18.4° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:34.0° South, 18.0° East
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Neogene Epoch:Pliocene
Stage:Piacenzian 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 6
Key time interval:Late/Upper Pliocene
Age range of interval:3.60000 - 2.58000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphic resolution:formation
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: not reported
Environment:shoreface
Geology comments: Upper-shoreface facies.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils,mesofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:118318
Authorizer:J. Sessa Enterer:L. Eccles
Modifier:J. Sessa Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2011-10-12 06:47:51 Last modified:2011-10-17 22:32:17
Access level:the public Released:2011-10-12 06:47:51
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
38091. 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]