KwaNobuhle Township outskirts (Cretaceous to of South Africa)

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

• olive-grey to yellow-buff, medium-to-coarse-grained sandstones interbedded with variegated red, pink, grey and pale green mudstones and siltstones up to 30 m thick

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

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Taxonomic list

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Reptilia
 Saurischia - Dicraeosauridae
Dicraeosauridae indet.
Dicraeosauridae indet. Huene 1927 dicraeosaurid
AM 4755 (partial middle dorsal neural arch)