Rio Maputo, Soc. Agr. de Lumbemba Sul, Catuane (bed 5) (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: marine; lithified, calcareous sandstone

• Calcareous sandstone, fine sandy marl, and yellow olive-gray 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 174818: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 28.11.2015

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Taxonomic list

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Bivalvia
 Ostreida - Ostreidae
Ostrea sp.
Ostrea sp. Linnaeus 1758 oyster
 Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
Liostrea cf. zululandiae
Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Acanthohoplitidae
Acanthohoplites aschiltaensis
Acanthohoplites aschiltaensis Anthula 1899 ammonite