Kleinberg Farm, Calitzdorp, Kannaland (Cretaceous of South Africa)

Where: Western Cape, South Africa (33.5° S, 21.6° E: paleocoordinates 42.8° S, 15.0° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• hand sample-level geographic resolution

When: Sundays River Formation (Uitenhage Group), Late/Upper Valanginian (140.2 - 136.4 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; nodular limestone

• "a nodular clay-limestone"

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by P. J. MacLaren in 1964

Collection methods: surface (float),

Primary reference: A. C. Hoffman. 1966. A gigantic plesiosaur from the South African Cretaceous. South African Journal of Science 62(5):138-140 [M. Carrano/H. Street/H. Street]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 106439: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Hallie Street on 16.03.2011

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• Here described as a gigantic plesiosaur vertebra, but the "strongly concavo-convex" morphology suggests that it is actually from a sauropod
Reptilia
 Plesiosauria -
Plesiosaurus sp. de la Beche and Conybeare 1821 plesiosaur
NMQR 1274 (C 3020); vertebra that actually is most likely from a sauropod