Sample 11984, Zoetgeneugd Cliff, Algoa Basin (Cretaceous of South Africa)

Where: South Africa (33.6° S, 25.6° E: paleocoordinates 45.1° S, 11.5° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• hand sample-level geographic resolution

When: Sundays River Formation, Late/Upper Valanginian (140.2 - 136.4 Ma)

• This reference: Biozone Bb: Sculptobaculites goodlandensis Zone (PArtial Range Zone); Foraminifera Zone 6/7 - Epistomia caracolla/Interzone (Venter 1972); basal Sundays River Fm

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marginal marine; lithified, gray, silty claystone

• accumulated in a marginal marine and estuarine environment; freshwater influence remained strong
• slightly silty gray claystone, rare shell, rare lignite

Size class: microfossils

Collection methods: bulk, chemical,

• 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 70986: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Thomas Schossleitner on 13.04.2007

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Taxonomic list

• No of specimens: abundant: 50+; frequent: 16-49; common: 6-15; few: 3-5; rare: 1-2
Nodosariata
 Nodosariida - Nodosariidae
Frondicularia sp. Defrance 1824
Foraminifera
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