Umlilo Game Farm (Cretaceous to of South Africa)

Where: Eastern Cape, South Africa (33.4° S, 25.5° E: paleocoordinates 45.0° S, 11.5° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Kirkwood Formation (Uitenhage Group), Berriasian to Berriasian (145.0 - 129.4 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: "channel"; medium-grained, coarse sandstone

• medium-to-coarse-grained sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by W. J. de Klerk in 1990's - 2000's

Primary reference: B. W. McPhee, P. D. Mannion, W. J. Klerk and J. N. Choiniere. 2016. High diversity in the sauropod dinosaur fauna of the Lower Cretaceous Kirkwood Formation of South Africa: implications for the Jurassic-Cretaceous transition. Cretaceous Research 59:228-248 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 174951: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Philip Mannion on 01.12.2015

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Reptilia
 Saurischia -
Eusauropoda indet.
Eusauropoda indet. Upchurch 1995 sauropod
AM 6125 (anterior dorsal vertebra)
 Saurischia - Brachiosauridae
Brachiosauridae indet., ? Brachiosauridae indet.
Brachiosauridae indet. Riggs 1904 brachiosaurid
AM 6128 (partial middle-to-posterior dorsal neural arch0
? Brachiosauridae indet. Riggs 1904 brachiosaurid
AM 6130 (partial dorsal centrum)