Locality 170, Bed 25 [Makatini Fm] (Cretaceous of South Africa)

Where: South Africa (27.2° S, 32.2° E: paleocoordinates 44.7° S, 1.5° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Makatini Formation, Late/Upper Barremian (130.0 - 125.5 Ma)

• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From the Makatini Fm, which is regionally overlain by the Mzinene Fm. AGE: Barremian II based on ammonite biostratigraphy (Colchidites and Sanmartinoceras zone). STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From bed near the lower upper part of the section, well above the top of the river cliff.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, concretionary, shelly/skeletal siltstone

• ENVIRONMENT: No detailed environmental data reported in text.
• SPECIFIC LITHOLOGY: Concretions with molluscs, assumed to be siltstone based on surrounding lithologies. LITHIFICATION: Lithified, assumed on the basis of facies descriptions of adjacent beds, and figures from subsequent publications (e.g. Kennedy and Kinger 1977).

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: concretion

Reposited in the BMNH

• COLLECTORS: Collected by authors (W. Kennedy and H. Klinger) during 1970-1971. REPOSITORY: BMNH.

Primary reference: H. C. Klinger and W. J. Kennedy. 1992. Cretaceous faunas from Zululand and Natal, South Africa. Barremian representatives of the ammonite family Ancyloceratidae Gill, 1871. Annals of the South African Museum 101(5):71-138 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 82475: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 28.07.2008

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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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Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Crioceratitidae
Crioceratites (Crioceratites) yrigoyeni
 Ammonitida - Ancyloceratidae
Acrioceras (Acrioceras) zulu
Acrioceras (Acrioceras) zulu Klinger and Kennedy 1992 ammonite