Where: South Africa (33.0° S, 26.0° E: paleocoordinates 73.7° S, 176.1° E)
• coordinate based on political unit
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Witpoort Formation (Witteberg Group), Frasnian to Frasnian (382.7 - 358.9 Ma)
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: sandstone and carbonaceous shale
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: adpression, permineralized, replaced with other
Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical,
Primary reference: N. Hiller and R. W. Gess. 1996. Marine algal remains from the Upper Devonian of South Africa. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 91:143-149 [W. Stein/N. Smith/N. Smith]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 23519: authorized by Bill Stein, entered by Nicole Smith on 16.07.2002, edited by Mihaela Krause
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Hungerfordia | |
Chondrichthyes | |
Antarctilamna ultima n. sp.
Antarctilamna ultima n. sp. Gess and Coates 2015 elasmobranch | |
Plesioselachus macracanthus Anderson 1990 cartilaginous fish |