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, concretionary, gray, blue, calcareous 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 174811: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 28.11.2015
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
Corbula elegans clam | |
Pholadomya (Bucardiomya) vignesi Lartet 1877 clam | |
Panopea gurgitis clam | |
Pinna cf. robinaldina d'Orbigny 1844 oyster | |
Ostrea sp. Linnaeus 1758 oyster | |
Exogyra cf. conica Sowerby 1813 oyster | |
Entolium orbicularis scallop | |
Camptonectes sp. Meek 1864 scallop | |
Gastropoda | |
Anchura parkinsoni snail | |
Avellana incrassata snail | |
Nerinea sp. Deshayes 1827 snail | |
Cephalopoda | |
Hysteroceras orbignyi, Hysteroceras choffati, Mortoniceras (Cantabrigites) cantabrigense, Mortoniceras sp., Mortoniceras (Mortoniceras) ornatum, Mortoniceras (Deiradoceras) cf. devonense, "Prohysteroceras (Goodhallites) gracillimum" = Goodhallites gracilima
Hysteroceras orbignyi Spath 1922 ammonite
Hysteroceras choffati Spath 1925 ammonite
Mortoniceras sp. Meek 1876 ammonite
Mortoniceras (Mortoniceras) ornatum van Hoepen 1944 ammonite
Mortoniceras (Deiradoceras) cf. devonense Spath 1933 ammonite
"Prohysteroceras (Goodhallites) gracillimum" = Goodhallites gracilima Kossmat 1895 ammonite | |
Hamites (Hamites) charpentieri, "Hamites (Hamites) virgulatus" = Stomohamites virgulatus
Hamites (Hamites) charpentieri Pictet and Roux 1847 ammonite
"Hamites (Hamites) virgulatus" = Stomohamites virgulatus Brongniart 1822 ammonite | |
Anisoceras raynaudi Boule et al. 1907 ammonite | |
Myloceras cornucopium, Myloceras cf. cornucopium, Myloceras serotinum, Labeceras inflatum n. sp., Labeceras plasticum
Myloceras cornucopium Spath 1925 ammonite
Myloceras cf. cornucopium Spath 1925 ammonite
Myloceras serotinum Spath 1925 ammonite
Labeceras inflatum n. sp. Förster 1975 ammonite | |
Echinoidea | |
Hemiaster zululandensis Besairie and Lambert 1930 heart urchin |