Also known as Kangnasaurus type site, Goubies
Where: Western Cape, South Africa (29.5° S, 18.4° E: paleocoordinates 44.2° S, 2.3° E)
• coordinate stated in text
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Late/Upper Cretaceous (100.5 - 66.0 Ma)
• exposed in well at a depth of 34 m; probably younger than 80 mya
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: crater lake; poorly lithified, concretionary conglomerate and volcaniclastic, intraclastic, calcareous mudstone
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Collected by J. Crozier, Coetzee & A. Rogers in 1913–1914
Collection methods: core,
• site revisited in 1990 for sediment samples
Primary reference: S. H. Haughton. 1915. On some dinosaur remains from Bushmanland. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Africa 5(1):259-264 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 68017: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 21.12.2006
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Reptilia | |
Kangnasaurus coetzeei n. gen. n. sp.
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