Also known as Leptocleidus capensis type locality; Zwartkops, Farm Redhouse
Where: Eastern Cape, South Africa (33.8° S, 25.6° E: paleocoordinates 45.2° S, 11.8° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Sculptobaculites goodlandensis foram zone, Sundays River Formation (Uitenhage Group), Late/Upper Valanginian (140.2 - 136.4 Ma)
• 'Uppermost' Valanginian according to Cruickshank (1997)
•Sundays River Formation, foraminiferal biozone Bb, uppermost Valanginian. Bb=Sculptobaculites goodlandensis
Environment/lithology: lagoonal or restricted shallow subtidal; nodular, gray, calcareous lime mudstone
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Collected by E. H. L. Schwarz in 1900
Collection methods: surface (float), surface (in situ),
• South African Museum collection
Primary reference: A. W. Rogers and E. H. L. Schwarz. 1901. Report on the survey of parts of the Uitenhage and Port Elizabeth divisions. Annual Report of the Geological Commission, Cape of Good Hope 1900:3-18 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 117446: authorized by Roger Benson, entered by Roger Benson on 20.09.2011, edited by Matthew Carrano
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
Pleuromya lutraria clam | |
Trigonia herzogi clam | |
Cephalopoda | |
Olcostephanus sp. Neumayr 1875 ammonite | |
Reptilia | |
"Plesiosaurus capensis n. sp." = Leptocleidus capensis
"Plesiosaurus capensis n. sp." = Leptocleidus capensis Andrews 1911 plesiosaur "a form allied to Plesiosaurus"
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