Where: South Africa (33.0° S, 27.6° E: paleocoordinates 33.1° S, 27.1° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Alexandria Formation, Pliocene (5.3 - 2.6 Ma)
• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From Alexandria Formation, which unconformably overlies Late Cretaceous Sundays River Fm in places, and is overlain by eolian calcarenites. AGE: Much discussed, although not clearly in text, to range from Miocene to Pleistocene, but also possible Eocene (see Haughton pers. comm., cited in text). Assigned here to a Pliocene age, based on more recent publications (King, 1972). STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From unknown position within formation.
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: coastal; poorly lithified, shelly/skeletal, calcareous limestone and lithified, shelly/skeletal, calcareous sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: COLLECTOR: Unknown collector. REPOSITORY: Unknown repository.
Primary reference: A. Ruddock. 1966. The Tertiary limestone of the southern coastal regions of Cape Province, South Africa. Sedimentary Basins of the African Coasts 49-62 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 77479: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 13.01.2008
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Rhynchonellata | |
? Kraussina sp. Davidson 1859 | |
Bivalvia | |
Ostrea atherstonei oyster | |
"Melina cf. gaudichaudi" = Isognomon (Melina)
"Melina cf. gaudichaudi" = Isognomon (Melina) oyster | |
Glycymeris pilosa Linnaeus 1767 clam | |
Gastropoda | |
Voluta africana volute | |
Cirripedia | |
Cirripedia indet. barnacle | |
Chondrichthyes | |
Oxyrhina sp. Agassiz 1838 mackerel shark | |
Carcharodon sp. Smith 1838 white shark | |
Bryozoa | |
Bryozoa indet. Ehrenberg 1831 | |
Foraminifera | |
Textularia cf. gramen dOrbigny 1846 | |
Tubothalamea | |
Foraminifera | |
Pulvinulina sp. Carpenter et al. 1862 | |
Globothalamea | |
Anomalina sp. d'Orbigny 1826 |