Locality 71 [St Lucia Fm]: Middle Coniacian, South Africa
collected by Kennedy & Klinger 1970-1971
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Cephalopoda
- Ammonitida
- Nostoceratidae
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Didymoceras (Didymoceras) indicum
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Klinger 1976 | ||||||
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Cephalopoda
- Ammonitida
- Scaphitidae
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Scaphites sp.
Parkinson 1811
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Klinger 1976 | ||||||
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Cephalopoda
- Ammonitida
- Placenticeratidae
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Proplacenticeras sp.
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Klinger 1976 | ||||||
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Placenticeras kaffrarium
Etheridge 1904
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11 specimens | ||||||
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Bivalvia
- Ostreida
- Pinnidae
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Pinna sp.
Linnaeus 1758
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Klinger 1976 | ||||||
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Geography
| Country: | South Africa |
| Coordinates: | 27.9° South, 32.4° East (view map) |
| Paleocoordinates: | 45.7° South, 18.7° East |
| Basis of coordinate: | stated in text |
| Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
| Period: | Cretaceous | Epoch: | Late Cretaceous |
| Stage: | Coniacian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cretaceous 6 |
| Key time interval: | Middle Coniacian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 89.8 - 86.3 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | St Lucia | ||||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | group of beds | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From the St Lucia Fm, which regionally overlies the Umzamba Fm. THICKNESS: Unknown bed and section thickness. AGE: Coniacian II-III based on ammonite biostratigraphy = Middle Coniacian. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: Unknown position within formation. | |||||
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: | cast,mold/impression |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
| Preservation of anatomical detail: | poor |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection excludes: | some macrofossils | ||
| Collection methods: | surface (in situ),field collection | ||
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis | ||
| Collectors: | Kennedy & Klinger | Collection dates: | 1970-1971 |
| Collection method comments: COLLECTORS: Collected by authors (W. Kennedy and H. Klinger) during 1970-1971. REPOSITORY: SAS, NMB. | |||
| Taxonomic list comments:COVERAGE: Limited to ammonites, though brachiopods, gastropods and bivalvia may be present though not covered in present taxonomic treatment. NOMENCLATURE: From authoritative publication, with modern nomenclature and species-resolution identifications. | |||
Metadata
| Database number: | 82455 | ||
| Authorizer: | A. Hendy | Enterer: | A. Hendy |
| Modifier: | M. Clapham | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 2008-07-27 22:55:00 | Last modified: | 2016-03-27 20:37:16 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2008-07-27 22:55:00 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 27772. | H. C. Klinger and W. J. Kennedy. 1989. Cretaceous faunas from Zululand and Natal, South Africa. The ammonite family Placenticeratidae Hyatt, 1900; with comments on the systematic position of the genus Hypengonoceras Spath, 1924. Annals of the South African Museum 98(9):241-408 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy] |
Secondary references:
| 27909 | H. C. Klinger. 1976. Cretaceous heteromorph ammonites from Zululand. South Africa Geological Survey Memoir 69:1-142 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy] |