Locality 51, Bed 11 [Mzinene Fm]: Late/Upper Albian, South Africa

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia - Trigoniida - Trigoniidae
Trigoniidae indet. Lamarck 1819
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Arcticidae
Veniella sp. Stoliczka 1870
Bivalvia - Pholadomyida - Pholadomyidae
Pholadomya vignesi Lartet 1877
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Bakevelliidae
Gervillella sp. Waagen 1907
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
Exogyra sp. Say 1820
Gastropoda - Turbinidae
Margarites sp. Gray 1847
Cephalopoda
Longibelus informal sp. D Fuchs et al. 2013
Fuchs et al. 2013
Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Brancoceratidae
Hysteroceras sp. Hyatt 1900
Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Labeceratidae
Myloceras sp. Spath 1925
see common names

Geography
Country:South Africa
Coordinates: 27.9° South, 32.3° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:48.9° South, 14.0° East
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Cretaceous Epoch:Early/Lower Cretaceous
Stage:Albian 10 m.y. bin:Cretaceous 4
Key time interval:Late/Upper Albian
Age range of interval:106.20000 - 100.50000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Mzinene
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From the Mzinene Fm, which regionally overlies the Aptian-Albian Makatini Fm. THICKNESS: 30 cm thick bed within ~20 m section thickness. AGE: Albian V (=Late Albian?) based on ammonite biostratigraphy. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: Near the lower upper part of the section.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:concretionary,shelly/skeletal lithified silty "limestone"
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: SPECIFIC LITHOLOGY: Concretionary shell limestone, presumably with siltstone matrix based on lithologies of adjacent beds. LITHIFICATION: Lithified, assumed on the basis of facies descriptions from regionally dominant lithology, and figures from subsequent publications (e.g. Kennedy and Kinger 1977).
Environment:marine indet.
Geology comments: ENVIRONMENT: No detailed environmental data reported in text.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,concretion
Degree of concentration:concentrated
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Preservation of anatomical detail:good
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Museum repositories:BMNH
Collection method comments: COLLECTORS: Collected by authors (W. Kennedy and H. Klinger) during 1970-1971. REPOSITORY: BMNH.
Taxonomic list comments: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.
Metadata
Database number:66015
Authorizer:A. Hendy, M. Clapham Enterer:A. Hendy, M. Clapham
Modifier:A. Hendy Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2006-09-26 20:17:00 Last modified:2013-11-25 13:37:23
Access level:the public Released:2006-09-26 20:17:00
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
18897. W. J. Kennedy and H.C. Klinger. 1975. Cretaceous faunas from Zululand and Natal, South Africa. Introduction, Stratigraphy. Bulletin of the British Museum of Natural History 25(4):265-315 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]

Secondary references:

73514 D. Fuchs, Y. Iba, C. Ifrim, T. Nishimura, W. J. Kennedy, H. Keupp, W. Stinnesbeck and K. Tanabe. 2013. Longibelus gen. nov., a new Cretaceous coleoid genus linking Belemnoidea and early Decabranchia. Palaeontology 56:1081-1106 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]