well, farm Kangnas, portion Goebees: Late Cretaceous, South Africa
collected by J. Crozier, Coetzee & A. Rogers 1913–1914
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Reptilia
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Kangnasaurus coetzeei n. gen., n. sp.
Haughton 1915
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1 individual | |||||||||
| SAM 2731, 2732 | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | South Africa | State/province: | Western Cape |
| Coordinates: | 29.5° South, 18.4° East (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 43.8° South, 6.7° East (Wright 2013) | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | stated in text | ||
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| Period: | Cretaceous | Epoch: | Late Cretaceous |
| 10 m.y. bin: | Cretaceous 5-8 | ||
| Key time interval: | Late Cretaceous | ||
| Age range of interval: | 100.5 - 66 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: exposed in well at a depth of 34 m; probably younger than 80 mya | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | concretionary poorly lithified conglomerate |
| Secondary lithology: | planar lamination,volcaniclastic,intraclastic calcareous mudstone |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Lithology description: "a poorly sorted, immature, coarse clastic unit of colluvial rubble"; "calcified and silicified quartzofelspathic grits and breccias". Fossils associated with a calcareous, ostracod-bearing mudrock and volcaniclastic breccia; it is laminated, with scattered lithic clasts." | |
| Environment: | crater lake |
| Geology comments: "quiet deposition, under subaqueous conditions, probably lacustrine sedimentation", probably a "crater-fill succession above an olivine-melilitie intrusion" | |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Degree of concentration: | dispersed |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils,mesofossils |
| Preservation of anatomical detail: | good |
| Associated major elements: | all |
| Fragmentation: | frequent |
| Temporal resolution: | snapshot |
| Spatial resolution: | parautochthonous |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | core,survey of museum collection | ||
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis | ||
| Collectors: | J. Crozier, Coetzee & A. Rogers | Collection dates: | 1913–1914 |
| Collection method comments: site revisited in 1990 for sediment samples | |||
Metadata
| Also known as: | Kangnasaurus type site, Goubies | ||
| Database number: | 68017 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Carrano | Enterer: | M. Carrano |
| Modifier: | M. Carrano | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2006-12-21 13:17:50 | Last modified: | 2025-02-22 15:12:02 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2006-12-21 13:17:50 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC0 | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 45359. | S. H. Haughton. 1915. On some dinosaur remains from Bushmanland. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Africa 5(1):259-264 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
Secondary references:
| 19458 | ETE | M. R. Cooper. 1985. A revision of the ornithischian dinosaur Kangnasaurus coetzeei Haughton, with a classification of the Ornithischia. Annals of the South African Museum 95(8):281-317 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
| 19460 | ETE | M. C. J. de Wit, J. D. Ward, and R. Spaggiari. 1992. A reappraisal of the Kangnas dinosaur site, Bushmanland, South Africa. South African Journal of Science 88:504-507 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
| 55258 | A. W. Rogers. 1915. The occurrence of dinosaurs in Bushmanland. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Africa 5(1):265-272 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] | |
| 61518 | D. B. Weishampel and J. B. Weishampel. 1983. Annotated localities of ornithopod dinosaurs: implications to Mesozoic paleobiogeography. The Mosasaur 1:43-87 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |