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
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Procellariidae indet.4, Fulmarinae indet.5, Procellaria sp.5, Puffinus (Puffinus) sp.5, Pachyptila sp.5, Pachyptila salax5, Calonectris sp.5
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Redunca sp.2, Raphicerus sp.2, Antilopini indet.2, Antidorcas sp.2, Connochaetes sp.2, Pelorovis antiquus2, Taurotragus strepiceros2
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"Carcharocles megalodon" = Otodus megalodon2
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