Also known as Duinefontein

Where: South Africa (33.7° S, 18.4° E: paleocoordinates 33.8° S, 18.0° E)

• coordinate stated in text

When: Varswater Formation, Zanclean (5.3 - 3.6 Ma)

• early Pliocene

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•The fossils provide a Zanclean age (5 Ma) for the deposit4 which is equivalent to the Muishond Fontein Pelletal Phosphorite Member of the Varswater Formation at Langebaanweg.

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: paralic; red, yellow sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: quarrying

Primary reference: G. G. Simpson. 1979. Tertiary penguins from the Duinefontein site, Cape Province, South Africa. Annals of the South African Museum 79(1):1-7 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 100313: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 08.12.2010

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