Where: South Africa (30.8° S, 30.6° E: paleocoordinates 48.0° S, 16.3° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Mzamba Formation, Late/Upper Santonian (85.8 - 83.5 Ma)

• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: Probably from the onshore Mzamba Fm on the basis of faunal similarity. AGE: Middle Santonian to Early Campanian, on the basis of ammonite biostratigraphy. Assigned here to intermediate age of Late Santonian. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From concretion exposed on seafloor surface.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; lithified, fine-grained, ferruginous siliciclastic sediments

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: cast, mold/impression, concretion

Collection methods: surface (float),

• COLLECTOR: Vessel Mering Naude. REPOSITORY: South African Museum (SAM).

Primary reference: H. C. Klinger. 1985. Upper Cretaceous Cephalopoda from offshore deposits off the Natal south coast, South Africa. Palaeontologia Africana 26(1):1-11 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 82520: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 28.07.2008

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