Mzinene River, near beacon 624 (Cretaceous of South Africa)

Where: South Africa (27.9° S, 32.3° E: paleocoordinates 48.9° S, 14.0° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Mortoniceras inflatum ammonoid zone, Mzinene Formation, Late/Upper Albian (105.3 - 99.6 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified lithology not reported

• Lithified based on fossil preservation

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by E.C.N. Van Hoepen

• Repository: South African Museum, Cape Town

Primary reference: M. R. Cooper. 1993. Rectithyrid brachiopods (Terebratulacea) from the Cretaceous of Zululand. Durban Museum Novitates 18:1-12 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 190515: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 08.12.2017

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Rhynchonellata
 Terebratulida - Sellithyrididae