Where: Mozambique (26.3° S, 32.4° E: paleocoordinates 42.6° S, 20.8° E)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Early/Lower Campanian (83.5 - 70.6 Ma)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, fine-grained, medium, brown 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 174825: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 28.11.2015
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
Venericardia cf. ameliae Peron 1928 clam | |
Veniella sp. Stoliczka 1870 clam | |
Exogyra sp. Say 1820 oyster | |
Neithea quinquecostata Sowerby 1814 scallop | |
"Camptonectes cf. curvatus" = Camptonectes virgatus
"Camptonectes cf. curvatus" = Camptonectes virgatus Nilsson 1827 scallop | |
Entolium sp. Meek 1865 scallop | |
"Nordenskjoldia sp." = Grammatodon (Nordenskjoldia)
"Nordenskjoldia sp." = Grammatodon (Nordenskjoldia) Wilckens 1910 clam | |
Cephalopoda | |
Baculites cf. boulei Collignon 1931 ammonite | |
Gastropoda | |
Semisolarium bailyi snail | |
"Gyrodes tenellus" = Gyrodes (Gyrodes) tenellus
"Gyrodes tenellus" = Gyrodes (Gyrodes) tenellus Stoliczka 1868 moon snail |