Locality 51, Bed 6 [Mzinene Fm] (Cretaceous of South Africa)

Where: South Africa (27.9° S, 32.3° E: paleocoordinates 48.9° S, 14.0° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Mzinene Formation, Late/Upper Albian (105.3 - 99.6 Ma)

• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From the Mzinene Fm, which regionally overlies the Aptian-Albian Makatini Fm. THICKNESS: 30 cm thick bed within ~20 m section thickness. AGE: Albian V (=Late Albian?) based on ammonite biostratigraphy. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: Near the middle part of the section.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

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

• ENVIRONMENT: No detailed environmental data reported in text.
• SPECIFIC LITHOLOGY: Concretions crowded with drifted molluscs, presumably with siltstone matrix based on lithologies of adjacent beds. LITHIFICATION: Lithified, assumed on the basis of facies descriptions from regionally dominant lithology, and figures from subsequent publications (e.g. Kennedy and Kinger 1977).

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: concretion

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 66011: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 26.09.2006, edited by Sabine Nürnberg and 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.
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Bivalvia
 Mytilida - Mytilidae
Modiolus sp.
Modiolus sp. Lamarck 1801 mussel
 Arcida - Glycymerididae
Glycymeris sp.
Glycymeris sp. Da Costa 1778 clam
 Pectinida - Entoliidae
Entolium sp.
Entolium sp. Meek 1865 scallop
 Cardiida - Arcticidae
Veniella sp.
Veniella sp. Stoliczka 1870 clam
 Pholadomyida - Pholadomyidae
Pholadomya vignesi
Pholadomya vignesi Lartet 1877 clam
 Trigoniida - Trigoniidae
Trigoniidae indet.
Trigoniidae indet. Lamarck 1819 clam
Cephalopoda
 Phylloceratida - Phylloceratidae
Phylloceras (Hypophylloceras) aphrodite1, Phylloceras (Hypophylloceras) subalpinum1, Phylloceras (Hypophylloceras) velledae1
Phylloceras (Hypophylloceras) subalpinum1 ammonite
Subspecies: P. (H.) subalpinum ellipticum
Phylloceras (Hypophylloceras) velledae1 Michelin 1834 ammonite
Subspecies: P. (H.) velledae velledae
 Ammonitida - Labeceratidae
Labeceratidae indet.
Labeceratidae indet. Spath 1925 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Tetragonitidae
Anagaudryceras pulchrum2
Anagaudryceras pulchrum2 Crick 1907 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Desmoceratidae
Puzosia sp.
Puzosia sp. Bayle 1878 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Mojsisovicsiidae
Oxytropidoceras (Oxytropidoceras) basseae3
1Kennedy and Klinger 1977; 2Kennedy and Klinger 1979; 3Kennedy and Klinger 2011