Rio Maputo, Soc. Agr. de Lumbemba Sul, Catuane (bed 6) (Cretaceous of Mozambique)

Where: Mozambique (26.8° S, 32.2° E: paleocoordinates 46.3° S, 4.5° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Late/Upper Aptian (122.5 - 113.0 Ma)

• Listed as bed 6 in locality description, but bed 5 in taxon descriptions.

• 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 174621: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 19.11.2015

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Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Arcida - Arcidae
Barbatia cf. aptiensis Pictet and Campiche 1866 clam
 Ostreida - Ostreidae
Ostrea sp. Linnaeus 1758 oyster
 Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
Camptonectes striatopunctatus Roemer 1839 scallop
 Pectinida - Entoliidae
 Cardiida - Veneridae
Cephalopoda
 Nautilida - Nautilidae
Cymatoceras neckerianum Pictet 1847 nautiloid
 Belemnitida -
Peratobelus sp. belemnite
 Belemnitida - Belemnopseidae
 Ammonitida - Douvilleiceratidae
Cheloniceras subnodosocostatum Sinzow 1906 ammonite
ssp. mozambiquensis
 Ammonitida - Acanthohoplitidae
"Acanthohoplites (Nolaniceras) uhligi" = Hypacanthoplites uhligi
"Acanthohoplites (Nolaniceras) uhligi" = Hypacanthoplites uhligi Anthula 1899 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Ancyloceratidae
Tropaeum subsimbirskense Sinzow 1925 ammonite
ssp. compressum
 Ammonitida - Protetragonitidae
Protetragonites crebrisulcatus Uhlig 1883 ammonite
Gastropoda
 Heterostropha - Ringiculidae