Also known as Catuane
Where: Mozambique (26.8° S, 32.2° E: paleocoordinates 47.9° S, 14.3° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Late/Upper Albian (105.3 - 99.6 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, gray, blue, calcareous 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 174805: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 28.11.2015
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
| Rhynchonellata | |
| Cephalopoda | |
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Myloceras joffrei Boule et al. 1907 ammonite | |
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Dipoloceras cristatum Brongniart 1822 ammonite | |
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Mortoniceras sp. Meek 1876 ammonite
Hysteroceras orbignyi Spath 1922 ammonite
Hysteroceras aff. subbinum Spath 1934 ammonite | |
| Scaphopoda | |
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Dentalium sp. Linnaeus 1758 tusk shell | |
| Gastropoda | |
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Avellana incrassata snail | |
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Semisolarium africanum snail | |
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Turritella manuanensis turret shell | |
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Fusus aff. requienianus snail | |
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Tessarolax aff. retusus snail
Anchura parkinsoni snail | |
| Bivalvia | |
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Modiolus reversus Sowerby 1836 mussel | |
Inoceramus (Birostrina) sulcatus, "Inoceramus concentricus" = Inoceramus (Actinoceramus) concentricus
Inoceramus (Birostrina) sulcatus Parkinson 1819 clam
"Inoceramus concentricus" = Inoceramus (Actinoceramus) concentricus Parkinson 1819 clam | |
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Aucellina gryphaeoides Sowerby 1836 scallop | |
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Entolium orbicularis scallop | |
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Pinna cf. robinaldina d'Orbigny 1844 oyster | |
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Exogyra conica Sowerby 1813 oyster | |
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Calva (Chimela) cf. caperata venus clam | |
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Veniella etheridgei clam | |
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Panopea gurgitis clam | |
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Pholadomya (Bucardiomya) vignesi Lartet 1877 clam | |