Locality 170, Bed 18, Mfongosi Spruit (Cretaceous of South Africa)

Where: South Africa (27.2° S, 32.2° E: paleocoordinates 44.7° S, 1.5° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Makatini Formation, Early/Lower Barremian (130.0 - 125.5 Ma)

• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From the Makatini Fm, which is regionally overlain by the Mzinene Fm. THICKNESS: From a 1 m bed within ~30 m section. AGE: Barremian 1 based on ammonite biostratigraphy (Acroceras zone). STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From siltstone bed near the middle of the section, immediately above the top of the river cliff.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, shelly/skeletal, carbonaceous siltstone

• ENVIRONMENT: No detailed environmental data reported in text.
• SPECIFIC LITHOLOGY: Siltstone with huge doggers, crowded with molluscs, logs common. LITHIFICATION: Lithified, assumed on the basis of facies descriptions of adjacent beds, and figures from subsequent publications (e.g. Kennedy and Kinger 1977).

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the BMNH

• COLLECTORS: Collected by authors (W. Kennedy and H. Klinger) during 1970-1971. REPOSITORY: BMNH.

Primary reference: W. J. Kennedy and H.C. Klinger. 1975. Cretaceous faunas from Zululand and Natal, South Africa. Introduction, Stratigraphy. Bulletin of the British Museum of Natural History 25(4):265-315 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 65839: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 25.09.2006, edited by Matthew Clapham

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Taxonomic list

• COVERAGE: Includes ammonites, brachiopods, bivalves and gastropods. Abundance data may only apply to ammonites. NOMENCLATURE: Some of faunal list derived from authoritive publications, although for the most part this is not the case and taxa lack subgeneric or species-level designations. Nevertheless, authors are specialists and nomenclature appears fairly accurate and modern.
Cephalopoda
 Phylloceratida - Phylloceratidae
"Phylloceras (Phylloceras) serum" = Phylloceras serum1, "Partschiceras cf. baborense" = Phyllopachyceras baborense1
"Phylloceras (Phylloceras) serum" = Phylloceras serum1 Oppel 1865 ammonite
"Partschiceras cf. baborense" = Phyllopachyceras baborense1 Coquand 1880 ammonite
Listed as "Partschiceras sp. juv. ? cf. baborense"
 Ammonitida - Crioceratitidae
"Emericiceras sp." = Crioceratites (Emericiceras) Sarkar 1954 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Lytoceratidae
"Eulytoceras sp." = Lytoceras
"Eulytoceras sp." = Lytoceras Suess 1865 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Oppeliidae
? Sanmartinoceras sp. Bonarelli 1921 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Ancyloceratidae
Acrioceras sp. Hyatt 1900 ammonite
Bivalvia
 Pholadida - Teredinidae
Teredo sp. Linnaeus 1758 clam
Gymnolaemata
 Cheilostomata - Electridae