Where: Eastern Cape, South Africa (33.4° S, 25.3° E: paleocoordinates 44.5° S, 11.8° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Uppermost Member (Kirkwood Formation), Berriasian to Berriasian (145.0 - 132.9 Ma)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; paleosol/pedogenic, coarse-grained mudstone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by C. Ross & W. De Klerk in 1996
Collection methods: quarrying, surface (in situ), mechanical,
Primary reference: P. C. Sereno. 2017. Early Cretaceous ornithomimosaurs (Dinosauria: Coelurosauria) from Africa. Ameghiniana 54(5):576-616 [G. Lloyd/G. Lloyd/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 51903: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Kaitlin Maguire on 30.06.2005
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Nqwebasaurus thwazi n. gen. n. sp.
Nqwebasaurus thwazi n. gen. n. sp. de Klerk et al. 2000 ornithomimosaur AM 6040, AM uncat. (second individual)
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