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, concretionary, 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 174811: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 28.11.2015
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Echinoidea | |
Hemiaster zululandensis Besairie and Lambert 1930 heart urchin | |
Gastropoda | |
Anchura parkinsoni snail | |
Nerinea sp. Deshayes 1827 snail | |
Avellana incrassata snail | |
Bivalvia | |
Pholadomya (Bucardiomya) vignesi Lartet 1877 clam | |
Panopea gurgitis clam | |
Corbula elegans clam | |
Pinna cf. robinaldina d'Orbigny 1844 oyster | |
Exogyra cf. conica Sowerby 1813 oyster | |
Ostrea sp. Linnaeus 1758 oyster | |
Camptonectes sp. Meek 1864 scallop | |
Entolium orbicularis scallop | |
Cephalopoda | |
Hysteroceras choffati, Hysteroceras orbignyi, Mortoniceras (Cantabrigites) cantabrigense, "Prohysteroceras (Goodhallites) gracillimum" = Goodhallites gracilima, Mortoniceras sp., Mortoniceras (Mortoniceras) ornatum, Mortoniceras (Deiradoceras) cf. devonense
Hysteroceras choffati Spath 1925 ammonite
Hysteroceras orbignyi Spath 1922 ammonite
"Prohysteroceras (Goodhallites) gracillimum" = Goodhallites gracilima Kossmat 1895 ammonite
Mortoniceras sp. Meek 1876 ammonite
Mortoniceras (Mortoniceras) ornatum van Hoepen 1944 ammonite
Mortoniceras (Deiradoceras) cf. devonense Spath 1933 ammonite | |
Labeceras plasticum, Labeceras inflatum n. sp., Myloceras cornucopium, Myloceras cf. cornucopium, Myloceras serotinum
Labeceras inflatum n. sp. Förster 1975 ammonite
Myloceras cornucopium Spath 1925 ammonite
Myloceras cf. cornucopium Spath 1925 ammonite
Myloceras serotinum Spath 1925 ammonite | |
Anisoceras raynaudi Boule et al. 1907 ammonite | |
"Hamites (Hamites) virgulatus" = Stomohamites virgulatus, Hamites (Hamites) charpentieri
"Hamites (Hamites) virgulatus" = Stomohamites virgulatus Brongniart 1822 ammonite
Hamites (Hamites) charpentieri Pictet and Roux 1847 ammonite |