Locality 175, Ndumu, Zululand (T. camatteanum fauna) (Cretaceous of South Africa)

Where: South Africa (26.9° S, 32.2° E: paleocoordinates 47.6° S, 8.1° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Otohoplites auritiformis ammonoid zone, Mzinene Formation, Early/Lower Albian (112.0 - 109.0 Ma)

• Albian III. Tegoceras camatteanum fauna. This corresponds to the Otohoplites bulliensis and Hoplites steinmanni subzones of the Otohoplites auritiformis Zone of western Europe: upper mammillatum Zone.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified siltstone

• Unknown lithology, likely to be siltstone based on regionally dominant lithology. Lithified, assumed on the basis of facies descriptions from regionally dominant lithology, and figures from subsequent publications (e.g. Kennedy and Kinger 1977).

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the BMNH, OUM

• Repository: also South African Museum

Primary reference: W. J. Kennedy and H. C. Klinger. 2008. Cretaceous faunas from Zululand and Natal, South Africa. The ammonite subfamily Lyelliceratinae Spath, 1921. African Natural History 4:57-111 [L. Bulot/L. Bulot/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 177185: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 22.03.2016

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Taxonomic list

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Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Lyelliceratidae
Tegoceras camatteanum
Tegoceras camatteanum d'Orbigny 1841 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Anisoceratidae
Ndumuiceras variabile n. gen. n. sp.
Ndumuiceras variabile n. gen. n. sp. Kennedy and Klinger 2009 ammonite