Also known as Mzuke Game Reserve
Where: South Africa (27.6° S, 32.2° E: paleocoordinates 48.6° S, 10.5° E)
• coordinate stated in text
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Hoplites dentatus ammonoid zone, Mzinene Formation, Middle Albian (109.0 - 105.3 Ma)
• Albian III. Lyelliceras lyelli fauna. This corresponds to the lyelli Subzone of the Hoplites dentatus Zone of western Europe: basal Middle Albian.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified siliciclastic sediments
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 177187: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 22.03.2016
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Pseudobrancoceras versicostatum Michelin 1838 ammonite
Lyelliceras pseudolyelli Parona and Bonarelli 1897 ammonite
Lyelliceras lyelli d'Orbigny 1841 ammonite |