Locality 57, north of Hluhluwe (Cretaceous of South Africa)

Where: South Africa (27.9° S, 32.3° E: paleocoordinates 49.0° S, 13.3° 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: Unknown bed and section thickness. AGE: Albian V (=Late Albian?) based on ammonite biostratigraphy. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: Unknown position within section

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified siltstone

• ENVIRONMENT: No detailed environmental data reported in text.
• SPECIFIC LITHOLOGY: Unknown lithology, 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

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 66019: 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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Bivalvia
 Trigoniida - Trigoniidae
Trigoniidae indet.2
Trigoniidae indet.2 Lamarck 1819 clam
 Cardiida - Arcticidae
Veniella sp.2
Veniella sp.2 Stoliczka 1870 clam
Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Labeceratidae
Labeceras inflatum3
Labeceras inflatum3 Förster 1975 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Desmoceratidae
"Puzosiidae indet." = Puzosiinae2
"Puzosiidae indet." = Puzosiinae2 Spath 1922 ammonite
 Phylloceratida - Phylloceratidae
Phylloceras (Hypophylloceras) aff. velledae1, Phylloceras (Hypophylloceras) velledae velledae1, "Phylloceras (Hypophylloceras) subalpinum ellipticum" = Phylloceras (Hypophylloceras) ellipticum1, Phylloceras (Hypophylloceras) aphrodite1
"Phylloceras (Hypophylloceras) subalpinum ellipticum" = Phylloceras (Hypophylloceras) ellipticum1 Kossmat 1895 ammonite
Phylloceras (Hypophylloceras) aphrodite1 Fallot and Termier 1923 ammonite
 Nautiloidea -
Nautiloidea indet.2
Nautiloidea indet.2 Agassiz 1847 nautiloid
1Kennedy and Klinger 1977; 2Klinger 1976; 3Klinger et al. 2010