Where: Western Cape, South Africa (33.0° S, 18.2° E: paleocoordinates 33.0° S, 17.9° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Quartzose Sand Member (Varswater Formation), Late/Upper Pliocene to Late/Upper Pliocene (3.6 - 0.0 Ma)

• Directly overlies the Gravel member.

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•From Davies 1973, page 722: " According to Hendey's reconstruction, the pliocene beds at Langebaanweg were truncated by a transgression to 27 m which left a low cliff. ... Molluscs of this transgression will certainly have been mixed with those of the pliocene beds. Thus one becomes sceptical of Kensley's claim (1972), taking no account of Hendey's reconstruction, that a collection which he has examined is pliocene; twelve species now live in Saldanha Bay, three on the south and east coasts, and only one is extinct." Likely Pleistocene in age (AJH & JAS).

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: interdistributary bay; lithified mudstone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Primary reference: B. Kensley. 1977. A second assemblage of Pliocene invertebrate fossils from Langebaanweg, Cape. Annals of the South African Museum 72(1):189-210 [A. Behrensmeyer/A. Behrensmeyer/M. Kosnik]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 110489: authorized by Jocelyn Sessa, entered by Laurie Eccles on 09.06.2011

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