Rio Maputo, Soc. Agr. de Lumbemba Sul, Catuane (bed 2) (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)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified, shelly/skeletal limestone

• Hard detrital limestone

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 174816: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 28.11.2015

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Acanthohoplitidae
"Acanthohoplites bigoureti" = Protacanthoplites bigoureti Seunes 1887 ammonite
Acanthohoplites aschiltaensis Anthula 1899 ammonite
 Phylloceratida - Phylloceratidae
Phylloceras (Hypophylloceras) seresitense Pervinquière 1907 ammonite
ssp. vohipalense
Bivalvia
 Pectinida - Limidae
 Ostreida - Bakevelliidae
 Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
 Arcida - Cucullaeidae
 Arcida - Arcidae
Barbatia cf. aptiensis Pictet and Campiche 1866 clam
 Cardiida - Veneridae
 Trigoniida - Megatrigonioidae
Pterotrigonia cristata van Hoepen 1929 clam