Also known as 3.3 km south of Uitenhage
Where: Eastern Cape, South Africa (33.8° S, 25.4° E: paleocoordinates 44.9° S, 12.0° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Kirkwood Formation (Uitenhage Group), Berriasian to Berriasian (145.0 - 132.9 Ma)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: fluvial; medium-grained, coarse, gray, yellow sandstone and gray, green, red mudstone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by W. J. de Klerk in the 1990s-2000s
Primary reference: B. W. McPhee, P. D. Mannion, W. J. Klerk and J. N. Choiniere. 2016. High diversity in the sauropod dinosaur fauna of the Lower Cretaceous Kirkwood Formation of South Africa: implications for the Jurassic-Cretaceous transition. Cretaceous Research 59:228-248 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 174952: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Philip Mannion on 01.12.2015
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
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