Where: South Africa (28.8° S, 32.0° E: paleocoordinates 42.2° S, 20.8° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Late/Upper Maastrichtian (70.6 - 66.0 Ma)

• No section was observed because all material collected from spoil heaps. Upper Maastrichtian age based on ammonite identifications and on nannofloras collected from matrix material.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, nodular siliciclastic sediments

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Collected by S. Kitto

Collection methods: salvage, surface (float)

• Repository: South African Museum, Cape Town

Primary reference: H. C. Klinger, W. J. Kennedy, J. A. Lees and S. Kitto. 2001. Upper Maastrichtian ammonites and nannofossils and a Palaeocene nautiloid from Richards Bay, Kwa Zulu, South Africa. Acta Geologica Polonica 51:273-291 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 166277: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 07.02.2015, edited by Mihaela Krause

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