Where: South Africa (30.8° S, 30.6° E: paleocoordinates 48.0° S, 16.3° E)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Mzamba Formation, Late/Upper Santonian (85.8 - 83.5 Ma)
• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: Probably from the onshore Mzamba Fm on the basis of faunal similarity. AGE: Middle Santonian to Early Campanian, on the basis of ammonite biostratigraphy. Assigned here to intermediate age of Late Santonian. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From concretion exposed on seafloor surface.
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: coastal; lithified, fine-grained, ferruginous siliciclastic sediments
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: cast, mold/impression, concretion
Collection methods: surface (float),
• COLLECTOR: Vessel Mering Naude. REPOSITORY: South African Museum (SAM).
Primary reference: H. C. Klinger. 1985. Upper Cretaceous Cephalopoda from offshore deposits off the Natal south coast, South Africa. Palaeontologia Africana 26(1):1-11 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 82520: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 28.07.2008
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda | |
Phylloceras (Hypophylloceras) woodsi van Hoepen and Hoepen 1921 ammonite
Partschiceras umzambiense van Hoepen 1920 ammonite | |
Baculites bailyi Woods 1906 ammonite | |
"Bostrychoceras" indicum, "Hyphantoceras (Madagascarites) amapondense" = Amapondella amapondense
"Bostrychoceras" indicum Stolickza 1866 ammonite
"Hyphantoceras (Madagascarites) amapondense" = Amapondella amapondense van Hoepen 1921 ammonite | |
Kossmaticeras (Natalites) africanus van Hoepen 1920 ammonite
Kossmaticeras (Kossmaticeras) inornatum Collignon 1966 ammonite | |
"Hauericeras cf. gardeni" = Hauericeras (Gardeniceras) gardeni, Desmophyllites diphylloides
"Hauericeras cf. gardeni" = Hauericeras (Gardeniceras) gardeni Baily 1855 ammonite
Desmophyllites diphylloides Forbes 1846 ammonite | |
Saghalinites cala Forbes 1846 ammonite
Saghalinites nuperus van Hoepen 1921 ammonite | |
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