Bezuidenhouts River, north side (Cretaceous to of South Africa)

Also known as Site 1, Strathsomers Estate

Where: Eastern Cape, South Africa (33.5° S, 25.4° E: paleocoordinates 44.7° S, 11.7° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Kirkwood Formation (Uitenhage Group), Berriasian to Berriasian (145.0 - 132.9 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; shelly/skeletal sandstone and shale

• "massive sandstones with bands of freshwater oysters, some conglomerates, and variegated shales"

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collected by T. Rich & P. Rich in 1978

Collection methods: bulk, surface (float), sieve,

Primary reference: I. R. McLachlan and I. K. McMillan. 1976. Review and stratigraphic significance of southern Cape Mesozoic palaeontology. Transactions of the Geological Society of South Africa 79(2):197-212 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 28213: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 30.01.2003

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Reptilia
 Theropoda -
Theropoda indet.2
Theropoda indet.2 theropod
hollow bone fragment
 Avetheropoda -
Carnosauria indet.1
Carnosauria indet.1 carnosaur
tooth, SAM K5262
1Rich et al. 1983; 2Rich and Rich 1985