Loerie Station (Loe 111) (Cretaceous to of South Africa)

Where: Eastern Cape, South Africa (33.8° S, 25.0° E: paleocoordinates 44.4° S, 12.5° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Kirkwood Formation (Uitenhage Group), Berriasian to Berriasian (145.0 - 136.4 Ma)

• Gamtoos Basin

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; mudstone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Collection methods: collection was made by Frankel 1940, it resides at the Albany Museum in Grahamstown (AMG)

Primary reference: J. M. Anderson and H. M. Anderson. 1985. Palaeoflora of Southern Africa. Prodromus of South African Megafloras Devonian to Lower Cretaceous 1-423 [P. Gensel/P. Gensel/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 38311: authorized by Hallie Sims, entered by Jason Cassara on 19.04.2004

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Polypodiopsida
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 Bennettitales -
Cycadopsida
 Cycadales - Nilssoniaceae