Umlilo Game Farm: Berriasian - Hauterivian, South Africa
collected by W. J. de Klerk 1990' - 2000'
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Reptilia
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Eusauropoda indet.
Upchurch 1995
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1 specimen | |||||||||
| AM 6125 (anterior dorsal vertebra) | ||||||||||
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Reptilia
- Brachiosauridae
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Brachiosauridae indet.
Riggs 1904
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1 specimen | |||||||||
| AM 6128 (partial middle-to-posterior dorsal neural arch0 | ||||||||||
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? Brachiosauridae indet.
Riggs 1904
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1 specimen | |||||||||
| AM 6130 (partial dorsal centrum) | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | South Africa | State/province: | Eastern Cape |
| Coordinates: | 33.4° South, 25.5° East (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 45.0° South, 11.5° West | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||
| Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
| Period: | Cretaceous | Epoch: | Early/Lower Cretaceous |
| Key time interval: | Berriasian - Hauterivian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 145.00000 - 125.77000 m.y. ago |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | medium,coarse sandstone |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Lithology description: medium-to-coarse-grained sandstone | |
| Environment: | "channel" |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | field collection | ||
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis | ||
| Collectors: | W. J. de Klerk | Collection dates: | 1990's - 2000's |
Metadata
| Database number: | 174951 | ||
| Authorizer: | P. Mannion | Enterer: | P. Mannion |
| Modifier: | P. Mannion | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2015-12-01 04:35:16 | Last modified: | 2017-05-23 16:34:15 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2015-12-01 04:35:16 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 57188. | B. W. McPhee, P. D. Mannion, W. J. Klerk and J. N. Choiniere. 2016. High diversity in the sauropod dinosaur fauna of the Lower Cretaceous Kirkwood Formation of South Africa: implications for the Jurassic-Cretaceous transition. Cretaceous Research 59:228-248 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion/M. Carrano] |