Where: South Africa (34.4° S, 17.8° E: paleocoordinates 34.7° S, 16.8° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
When: Middle Miocene to Middle Miocene (16.0 - 2.6 Ma)
• "the most probable age for these skulls would be middle to early late Miocene, but we cannot completely exclude older ages. Because more reduced phosphogenic phases occurred later in the Miocene and Pliocene, some specimens might even prove to be younger."
Environment/lithology: marine; phosphorite
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: original phosphate
Primary reference: S. H. Haughton. 1956. Phosphatic-Glauconitic deposits off the west coast of South Africa. Annals of the South African Museum 42(4):329-334 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 77208: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 31.12.2007
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Mammalia | |
cf. Mesoplodon sp., Africanacetus ceratopsis n. gen. n. sp.1, Izikoziphius rossi n. gen. n. sp.1, ? Ziphius sp., Berardiinae indet.1, Microberardius africanus n. gen. n. sp.1, Xhosacetus hendeysi n. gen. n. sp.1, Nenga meganasalis n. gen. n. sp.1
? Ziphius sp. Cuvier 1824 beaked whale | |
| |
Chondrichthyes | |
Carcharodon sp. Smith 1838 white shark | |
Carcharias sp. Rafinesque 1810 sand shark | |
Gastropoda | |
? Fusus sp. Bruguière 1789 snail | |
"cf. Pleurotoma sp." = Turris
"cf. Pleurotoma sp." = Turris Röding 1798 turrid | |
cf. Pusionella sp. Gray 1847 snail | |
? Conus sp. Linnaeus 1758 cone shell | |
Xenophora sp. Fischer von Waldheim 1807 carrier shell | |
Natica sp. Scopoli 1777 moon snail | |
Bivalvia | |
Cuspidaria sp. Dall 1886 clam | |
Veneridae indet. Rafinesque 1815 venus clam | |
Scaphopoda | |
Dentalium sp. Linnaeus 1758 tusk shell |