Skoenberg (Cretaceous of South Africa)

Also known as deposit at the north end of False Bay

Where: South Africa (27.9° S, 32.3° E: paleocoordinates 47.9° S, 16.3° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Mzinene Formation, Early/Lower Cenomanian (99.6 - 93.5 Ma)

• possibly from the upper Lower Cenomanian.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; lithified siltstone

• The Mzinene Fm encompasses shallow marine, abundantly fossiliferous, glauconitic siltstones and fine-grained sandstones (Kennedy and Klinger, 1975). … the calcareous sandstone and calcareous siltstone were deposited in a shallow marine, inner shelf environment (Odin and Fullagar, 1988; Aljinović, 1995; Flügel, 2004). (Tanabe 2020)
• The Mzinene Fm encompasses shallow marine, abundantly fossiliferous, glauconitic siltstones and fine-grained sandstones (Kennedy and Klinger, 1975).

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by W.J. Kennedy, H.C. Klinger; reposited in the OUM

• Repository: additional specimens at South African Museum

Primary reference: W. J. Kennedy, H. C. Klinger, and J. Lehmann. 2014. Cretaceous faunas from Zululand and Natal, South Africa. The ammonite subfamily Mantelliceratinae Hyatt, 1903. African Natural History 11:1-42 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 230843: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 21.07.2023

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Taxonomic list

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Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Acanthoceratidae
"Acanthoceras nitidum n. sp." = Mantelliceras nitidum
"Acanthoceras nitidum n. sp." = Mantelliceras nitidum Crick 1907 ammonite