PBDB Collection

Needs Camp, Lower Quarry (Cretaceous of South Africa)

Where: South Africa (33.0° S, 27.6° E: paleocoordinates 49.5° S, 12.2° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

When: Late/Upper Cretaceous (100.5 - 66.0 Ma)

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; unlithified, shelly/skeletal, white grainstone

• rocks virtually unconsolidated, off-white, bioclastic calcarenite

Size classes: mesofossils, microfossils

Primary reference: F. Chapman. 1916. Foraminifera and Ostracoda from the Upper Cretaceous onf Need's Camp, Buffalo River, Cape Province. Annals of the South African Museum 12:107-118 [J. Alroy/E. Leckey/E. Leckey]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 38815: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Erin Leckey on 05.05.2004

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Taxonomic list

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unclassified
-	Dentalini cf. confluens, Trunculina ungeriana Dentalini cf. confluens Trunculina ungeriana
Foraminifera
Foraminifera -	Foraminifera indet. Foraminifera indet. foram cf. "Rotorbinella" or "Gavelinopsis"
Globigerinaceae - Globotruncanidae	Rugoglobigerina aff. rugosa Rugoglobigerina aff. rugosa Plummer 1927
Discorbacea - Eponididae	Pulvinulina karsteni Pulvinulina karsteni
Rotaliina - Bolivinidae	Bolivina aff. incrassata Bolivina aff. incrassata
-	Cristellaria parallela, Cristellaria intermedia, Cristellaria secans, "Marginulina cf. jarvisi" = Cristellaria (Marginulina) Cristellaria parallela Cristellaria intermedia Cristellaria secans "Marginulina cf. jarvisi" = Cristellaria (Marginulina)
Globothalamea
Rotaliida - Cancrisidae	Gyroidinoides nitida Gyroidinoides nitida
Rotaliida - Discorbidae	Discorbina pileolus Discorbina pileolus
Rotaliida - Alabaminidae	Alabamina dorsoplana Alabamina dorsoplana
Rotaliida - Gavelinellidae	Gavelinella aff. pertusa, "Gavelinella" sp. Gavelinella aff. pertusa "Gavelinella" sp. Brotzen 1942
Rotaliida - Anomalinidae	Anomalina ammonoides Anomalina ammonoides Reuss 1844
Rotaliida - Cibicididae	Cibicides cf. complanata, Cibicides cf. bembix, Cibicides cf. voltziana, Cibicides aff. excavata Cibicides cf. complanata Cibicides cf. bembix Cibicides cf. voltziana Cibicides aff. excavata
Nodosariata
Nodosariida - Nodosariidae	Nodosaria zippei, Nodosaria sulcata, Nodosaria vertebralis Nodosaria zippei Nodosaria sulcata Nodosaria vertebralis Brady 1884
Vaginulinida - Vaginulinidae	Lenticulina sp. Lenticulina sp. Lamarck 1804
Foraminifera
- Spiroplectamminidae	Spiroplectammina aff. laevis Spiroplectammina aff. laevis Roemer 1841
Globigerinina - Hedbergellidae	? Hedbergella sp. ? Hedbergella sp.
-	Spiroplecta anceps, Spiroplecta deflata n. sp. Spiroplecta anceps including new variety S. anceps infracta Spiroplecta deflata n. sp.
Lituolida - Ammobaculinidae	Haplophragmium neocomianum Haplophragmium neocomianum Chapman 1894
Anthozoa
Scleractinia - Caryophylliidae	Caryophyllia sp. Caryophyllia sp. Lamarck 1801 stony coral
Reptilia
Plesiosauria -	cf. Plesiosauroidea indet. cf. Plesiosauroidea indet. Welles 1943 plesiosaur "reptile tooth", tentatively assigned to Plesiosauroidea
Chondrichthyes
Lamniformes - Lamnidae	Isurus sp. Isurus sp. Rafinesque 1810 mackerel shark
Lamniformes - Carchariidae	Carcharias sp. Carcharias sp. Rafinesque 1810 sand shark
Echinoidea
Cidaroida - Cidaridae	"Cidaris" sp. "Cidaris" sp. Leske 1778 pencil urchin
Bivalvia
Myalinida - Inoceramidae	Inoceramus sp. Inoceramus sp. Sowerby 1814 clam
Bryozoa
-	Bryozoa indet. Bryozoa indet. Ehrenberg 1831
Deuteropoda
-	Ostracoda indet. Ostracoda indet. Latreille 1802 ostracod
Ostracoda
Podocopida - Cytheridae	Cythere postcultrata n. sp. Cythere postcultrata n. sp. ostracod
Podocopida - Bairdiidae	Bairdia africana n. sp., Bairdia subdeltoidea Bairdia africana n. sp. ostracod Bairdia subdeltoidea von Muenster 1830 ostracod including new variety B. subdeltoidea aequalis
Truncatulina
-	Truncatulina schloenbachi Truncatulina schloenbachi