Where: South Africa (33.7° S, 25.8° E: paleocoordinates 46.0° S, 10.9° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• hand sample-level geographic resolution
When: Sundays River Formation, Late/Upper Hauterivian (136.4 - 130.0 Ma)
• This reference: Biozone IV: Pseudomorphina cholchesterensis Zone (Total Range Zone); Foraminifera Zone 3 - Eoguttulina Zone (Venter 1972); top Sundays River Fm
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified, fine-grained, shelly/skeletal, gray claystone
Size class: microfossils
Collection methods: bulk, chemical, sieve
• samples were collected by I.R. McLachlan and C. Reabow; all specimens have been deposited in the collections of the South African Museum, Cape Town, catalouge numbers prefixed SAM-PQ-MF; original assemblage slides housed in the microfossil slide collections in SOEKOR (Pty) Ltd., in Parow, Cape Town.
Primary reference: I.K. McMillan. 2003. The Foraminifera of the Late Valangian to Hautverian (Early Cretaceous) Sundays River Formation of the Algoa Basin, Eastern Cape Province, South Africa. Annals of the South African Museum 106:1-274 [W. Kiessling/T. Schossleitner]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 70693: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Thomas Schossleitner on 03.04.2007
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