Locality 170, Bed 44-45 [Makatini Fm] (Cretaceous of South Africa)

Where: South Africa (27.2° S, 32.2° E: paleocoordinates 45.2° S, 2.0° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Makatini Formation, Early/Lower Aptian (121.4 - 122.5 Ma)

• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From the Makatini Fm, which is regionally overlain by the Mzinene Fm. THICKNESS: From ~10 m of siltstone within ~30 m section. AGE: Aptian II based on ammonite biostratigraphy (Cheloniceras zone). STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From poorly exposed siltstone immediately above the top of the gully.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, concretionary, brown siltstone

• ENVIRONMENT: No detailed environmental data reported in text.
• SPECIFIC LITHOLOGY: From silts with brittle, pale buff concretions. LITHIFICATION: Lithified, assumed on the basis of facies descriptions of adjacent beds, and figures from subsequent publications (e.g. Kennedy and Kinger 1977).

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: concretion

Reposited in the BMNH

• COLLECTORS: Collected by authors (W. Kennedy and H. Klinger) during 1970-1971. REPOSITORY: BMNH.

Primary reference: W. J. Kennedy and H.C. Klinger. 1975. Cretaceous faunas from Zululand and Natal, South Africa. Introduction, Stratigraphy. Bulletin of the British Museum of Natural History 25(4):265-315 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 65845: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 25.09.2006

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Taxonomic list

• COVERAGE: Includes ammonites, brachiopods, bivalves and gastropods. Abundance data may only apply to ammonites. NOMENCLATURE: Some of faunal list derived from authoritive publications, although for the most part this is not the case and taxa lack subgeneric or species-level designations. Nevertheless, authors are specialists and nomenclature appears fairly accurate and modern.
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Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Douvilleiceratidae
Cheloniceras sp.
Cheloniceras sp. Hyatt 1903 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Ancyloceratidae
Tropaeum sp., Ancyloceras sp., Australiceras sp.
Tropaeum sp. Sowerby 1837 ammonite
Ancyloceras sp. d'Orbigny 1842 ammonite
Australiceras sp. Whitehouse 1926 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Desmoceratidae
? Valdedorsella sp.
? Valdedorsella sp. Breistroffer 1947 ammonite