Rio Umbeluzi (Cretaceous of Mozambique)

Where: Mozambique (26.0° S, 32.4° E: paleocoordinates 42.3° S, 20.8° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Early/Lower Campanian (83.5 - 70.6 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, fine-grained, glauconitic, pebbly, brown, green sandstone

• Olive, light brown weathered, glauconitic fine sandstone with scattered quartz pebbles

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 174824: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 28.11.2015

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Taxonomic list

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Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Baculitidae
Baculites boulei
Baculites boulei Collignon 1931 ammonite
Gastropoda
 Heterostropha - Ringiculidae
Avellana perampla
 Trochoidea - Turbinidae
Semisolarium cf. bailyi
Bivalvia
 Pectinida - Entoliidae
Entolium sp.
Entolium sp. Meek 1865 scallop
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
Amusium sp., "Camptonectes cf. curvatus" = Camptonectes virgatus
Amusium sp. Röding 1798 scallop
"Camptonectes cf. curvatus" = Camptonectes virgatus Nilsson 1827 scallop
 Pectinida - Neitheoidae
Neithea quinquecostata
Neithea quinquecostata Sowerby 1814 scallop
 Arcida - Parallelodontidae
"Nordenskjoldia sp." = Grammatodon (Nordenskjoldia)
"Nordenskjoldia sp." = Grammatodon (Nordenskjoldia) Wilckens 1910 clam
 Trigoniida - Trigoniidae
Linotrigonia elegans
Echinoidea
 Calycina - Phymosomatidae
Actinophyma sp.
Actinophyma sp. sea urchin