Lagoa Catuine, Rio Zepundune, bed 9 (Cretaceous of Mozambique)

Also known as Catuane

Where: Mozambique (26.8° S, 32.2° E: paleocoordinates 47.9° S, 14.3° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Late/Upper Albian (105.3 - 99.6 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

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

• Friable, tan 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 174807: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 28.11.2015

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Nautilida - Nautilidae
Cymatoceras manuanensis Crick 1907 nautiloid
Bivalvia
 Pholadomyida - Pholadomyidae