Mouth of Umzamba River, Pondoand (Cretaceous of South Africa)

Where: Eastern Cape, South Africa (31.1° S, 30.2° E: paleocoordinates 48.3° S, 15.7° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Umzamba Formation, Santonian (86.3 - 83.6 Ma)

Environment/lithology: marginal marine; poorly lithified siliciclastic sediments

• JA: apparently poorly lithified because (1) specimens were collected from "walls and ceilings" of caves; (2) figured specimens retain matrix; and (3) other outcrops "are hard and [their] fossils are difficult to extract"

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

Primary reference: J. V. L. Rennie. 1930. New Lamellibranchia and Gastropoda from the Upper Cretaceous of Pondoland (with an Appendix on some species from the Cretaceous of Zululand). Annals of the South Africa Museum 28(2):159-260 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 177883: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 11.04.2016

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Taxonomic list

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Gastropoda
 Sorbeoconcha - Cypraeidae
"Bernaya (Protocypraea) caffrarica n. sp." = Palaeocypraea (Palaeocypraea) caffrarica, "Cypraea chubbi n. sp." = Afrocypraea chubbi
"Bernaya (Protocypraea) caffrarica n. sp." = Palaeocypraea (Palaeocypraea) caffrarica Schilder 1932 cowry
"Cypraea chubbi n. sp." = Afrocypraea chubbi Rennie 1930 cowry