Rio Xessane (Cretaceous of Mozambique)

Where: Mozambique (26.7° S, 32.2° E: paleocoordinates 44.4° S, 1.9° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Late/Upper Barremian (130.0 - 125.5 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, fine-grained, brown, calcareous sandstone

• Marly fine sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the BSP

Primary reference: R. Förster. 1975. Die geologische Entwicklung von Süd-Mozambique seit der Unterkreide und die Ammoniten-Fauna von Unterkreide und Cenoman. Geologisches Jahrbuch, Reihe B 12:3-324 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 174800: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 27.11.2015

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Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Crioceratitidae