Locality 51, Bed 10 [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, 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 66014: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 26.09.2006, 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.
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Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Brancoceratidae
Hysteroceras sp., Mortoniceras sp.
Hysteroceras sp. Hyatt 1900 ammonite
Mortoniceras sp. Meek 1876 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Mojsisovicsiidae
Oxytropidoceras (Venezoliceras) umsinenense
Bivalvia
 Trigoniida - Trigoniidae
Trigoniidae indet.
Trigoniidae indet. Lamarck 1819 clam
 Pholadomyida - Pholadomyidae
Goniomya sp., Pholadomya vignesi
Goniomya sp. Agassiz 1842 clam
Pholadomya vignesi Lartet 1877 clam
 Cardiida - Arcticidae
Veniella sp.
Veniella sp. Stoliczka 1870 clam