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
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
Bivalvia | |
Veniella sp. Stoliczka 1870 clam | |
Goniomya sp. Agassiz 1842 clam
Pholadomya vignesi Lartet 1877 clam | |
Trigoniidae indet. Lamarck 1819 clam | |
Cephalopoda | |
Oxytropidoceras (Venezoliceras) umsinenense van Hoepen 1931 ammonite | |
Hysteroceras sp. Hyatt 1900 ammonite
Mortoniceras sp. Meek 1876 ammonite |