Bezuidenhouts River, north side (Cretaceous to of South Africa)

Also known as Site 5

Where: Eastern Cape, South Africa (33.5° S, 25.5° E: paleocoordinates 44.7° S, 11.7° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Kirkwood Formation (Uitenhage Group), Berriasian to Berriasian (145.0 - 132.9 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; sandstone

• sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: replaced with calcite

Collected by A. Rogers, E. Schwarz

Collection methods: surface (float), surface (in situ),

Primary reference: I. R. McLachlan and I. K. McMillan. 1976. Review and stratigraphic significance of southern Cape Mesozoic palaeontology. Transactions of the Geological Society of South Africa 79(2):197-212 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 175259: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 08.12.2015

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
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Reptilia indet. Laurenti 1768 reptile
"spongy tissue of long bones of reptiles"