Where: Mozambique (26.7° S, 32.3° E: paleocoordinates 46.7° S, 16.7° E)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Mifume Formation, Early/Lower Cenomanian (99.6 - 93.5 Ma)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, fine-grained, brown, silty 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 174829: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 28.11.2015
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
| Gastropoda | |
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Cryptorhytis cf. rigida snail | |
| Cephalopoda | |
Mantelliceras saxbii, Mantelliceras tuberculatum, "Calycoceras cf. newboldi" = Calycoceras (Newboldiceras) asiaticum
Mantelliceras saxbii Sharpe 1857 ammonite
Mantelliceras tuberculatum Mantell 1822 ammonite
"Calycoceras cf. newboldi" = Calycoceras (Newboldiceras) asiaticum Jimbo 1894 ammonite | |
Mariella (Mariella) aff. essenensis, Mariella (Mariella) oehlerti, Hypoturrilites cf. gravesianus, "Hypoturrilites carcitanensis" = Neostlingoceras carcitanensis
Mariella (Mariella) aff. essenensis Geinitz 1849 ammonite
Mariella (Mariella) oehlerti Pervinquiere 1910 ammonite
Hypoturrilites cf. gravesianus d'Orbigny 1842 ammonite
"Hypoturrilites carcitanensis" = Neostlingoceras carcitanensis Matheron 1842 ammonite | |
| Bivalvia | |
|
Pterotrigonia setosa clam | |
|
Lithophaga manuanensis mussel | |
| Rhynchonellata | |
|
"Rhynchonella" sp. Fischer 1809 | |