Locality 65 [Mzinene Fm]: Late Albian, South Africa
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Cephalopoda
- Ammonitida
- Labeceratidae
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Labeceratidae indet.
Spath 1925
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Klinger 1976 | |||||||||
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Cephalopoda
- Ammonitida
- Desmoceratidae
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Puzosiidae indet.
(Spath 1922)
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Klinger 1976 | |||||||||
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Desmoceras (Desmoceras) latidorsatum
(Michelin 1838)
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Kennedy and Klinger 2013 | |||||||||
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Cephalopoda
- Ammonitida
- Tetragonitidae
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Anagaudryceras pulchrum
(Crick 1907)
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Kennedy and Klinger 1979 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
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Cephalopoda
- Ammonitida
- Brancoceratidae
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Mortoniceratidae indet.
(Douvillé 1912)
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Klinger 1976 | |||||||||
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Cephalopoda
- Phylloceratida
- Phylloceratidae
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Phylloceras (Hypophylloceras) velledae
(Michelin 1834)
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Kennedy and Klinger 1977 | 5 specimens | ||||||||
| Subspecies: P. (H.) velledae velledae | ||||||||||
| 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 Cretaceous |
| Stage: | Albian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cretaceous 4 |
| Key time interval: | Late Albian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 106.2 - 100.5 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Mzinene | ||||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | group of beds | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From the Mzinene Fm, which regionally overlies the Aptian-Albian Makatini Fm. THICKNESS: Unknown bed and section thickness. AGE: Albian V (=Late Albian?) based on ammonite biostratigraphy. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: Unknown position within section | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | lithified siltstone |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Lithology description: SPECIFIC LITHOLOGY: Unknown lithology, 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 |
| 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: | 66021 | ||
| Authorizer: | A. Hendy, M. Clapham, M. Aberhan | Enterer: | A. Hendy, S. Nurnberg, M. Clapham |
| Modifier: | A. Hendy | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 2006-09-26 20:30:34 | Last modified: | 2013-11-25 13:37:23 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2006-09-26 20:30:34 |
| 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:
| 18898 | W. J. Kennedy and H.C. Klinger. 1977. Cretaceous faunas from Zululand and Natal, South Africa. The ammonite family Phylloceratidae. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) 27(5):347-380 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy] | |
| 23790 | W. J. Kennedy and H. C. Klinger. 1979. Cretaceous faunas from Zululand and Natal, South Africa. The ammonite family Gaudryceratidae. Bulletin of the British Museum of Natural History (Geology) 31(2):121-174 [M. Aberhan/S. Nurnberg/M. Clapham] | |
| 58618 | W. J. Kennedy and H. C. Klinger. 2013. Cretaceous faunas from Zululand and Natal, South Africa. The ammonite subfamily Desmoceratinae Zittel, 1895. African Natural History 9:39-54 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham] | |
| 27909 | H. C. Klinger. 1976. Cretaceous heteromorph ammonites from Zululand. South Africa Geological Survey Memoir 69:1-142 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy] |