Locality 109, Nibela Peninsula (Cretaceous of South Africa)

Where: South Africa (28.0° S, 32.4° E: paleocoordinates 44.2° S, 20.4° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Australiella delawarensis ammonoid zone, St. Lucia Formation, Early/Lower Campanian (83.5 - 70.6 Ma)

• Associated with the upper Lower Campanian ammonites A. (Australiella), A . (Delawarella), Baculites, and Anapachydiscus.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified siliciclastic sediments

• Lithified based on fossil preservation

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: Repository: Durban Museum (now South African Museum)

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 190517: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 08.12.2017

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Rhynchonellata
 Terebratulida - Sellithyrididae
Cyrtothyris undisona n. sp. Cooper 1993