Where: Cape, South Africa (33.8° S, 25.6° E: paleocoordinates 34.0° S, 25.2° E)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Alexandria Formation, Pliocene (5.3 - 2.6 Ma)
• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From Alexandria Formation, which unconformably overlies Late Cretaceous Sundays River Fm in places, and is overlain by eolian calcarenites. AGE: Much discussed, although not clearly in text, to range from Miocene to Pleistocene, but also possible Eocene (see Haughton pers. comm., cited in text). Assigned here to a Pliocene age, based on more recent publications (King, 1972). STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: A composite list representing the entire formation.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: foreshore; poorly lithified conglomerate and sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by Ross Zietsman in 06/1981
• South African Musem (SAM)
Primary reference: W. Liltved and F. Leroux. 1988. A new fossil Cypraea (Gastropoda, Prosobranchia) from South Africa with notes on the Alexandria Formation. Veliger 30(4):400-407 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 179486: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 17.06.2016
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Gastropoda | |
Calyptraea kilburni Kensley and Pether 1986 slipper shell | |
"Cypraea zietsmani" = Afrozoila zietsmani
"Cypraea zietsmani" = Afrozoila zietsmani Liltved and Leroux 1988 cowry | |
Nucella squamosa murex snail | |
Melapium elatum true whelk | |
Vasum "sp. nov. ?" Röding 1798 snail | |
Clionella "sp. nov. ?" Gray 1847 snail | |
Turritella sanguinea Reeve 1849 turret shell | |
Diodora elevata snail
Fissurellidea aperta Sowerby 1825 snail | |
Scaphopoda | |
Dentalium sp. Linnaeus 1758 tusk shell | |
Bivalvia | |
Pinctada "sp. nov. ?" Ršding 1798 pearl oyster | |
Glycymeris borgesi clam | |
Rhynchonellata | |
Kraussina sp. Davidson 1859 |