Rio Maputo, Soc. Agr. de Lumbemba Sul, Catuane (bed 18) (Cretaceous of Mozambique)

Where: Mozambique (26.8° S, 32.2° E: paleocoordinates 46.3° S, 4.5° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Late/Upper Aptian (122.5 - 113.0 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, fine-grained, brown, yellow, calcareous sandstone

• Yellow-brown, marly fine sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the BSP

Primary reference: R. Förster. 1975. Die geologische Entwicklung von Süd-Mozambique seit der Unterkreide und die Ammoniten-Fauna von Unterkreide und Cenoman. Geologisches Jahrbuch, Reihe B 12:3-324 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 174620: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 19.11.2015

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Taxonomic list

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Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Tetragonitidae
Argonauticeras belliseptatum
Argonauticeras belliseptatum Anthula 1899 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Ancyloceratidae
Tropaeum subsimbirskense
Tropaeum subsimbirskense Sinzow 1925 ammonite
ssp. compressum
 Nautilida - Nautilidae
Cymatoceras neckerianum
Cymatoceras neckerianum Pictet 1847 nautiloid
 Belemnitida - Belemnopseidae
Neohibolites cf. inflexus
 Belemnitida -
Peratobelus sp.
Peratobelus sp. belemnite