Avontuur A 50m complex 4 (Pliocene of South Africa)

Where: Western Cape, South Africa (33.9° S, 18.4° E: paleocoordinates 34.0° S, 18.0° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Late/Upper Pliocene (3.6 - 2.6 Ma)

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: transition zone or lower shoreface; lithology not reported

• Lower-shoreface facies.

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Primary reference: B. Kensley and J. Pether. 1986. Late Tertiary and Early Quaternary Fossil Mollusca for the Hondeklip Area, Cape Province, South Africa. Annals of the South African Museum 97(6):141-225 [J. Sessa/L. Eccles]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 118319: authorized by Jocelyn Sessa, entered by Laurie Eccles on 12.10.2011

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Taxonomic list

Gastropoda
 Trochoidea - Turbinidae
 Trochoidea - Trochidae
 Lepetellida - Fissurellidae
 Neogastropoda - Nassariidae
 Neogastropoda - Turridae
 Neogastropoda - Muricidae
Nucella praecingulata Haughton 1932 murex snail
 Sorbeoconcha - Eratoidae
? Hespererato oppenheimeri Kensley and Pether 1986 snail
 Patellogastropoda - Patellidae
Patella hoffmani n. sp. Kensley and Pether 1986 limpet
Bivalvia
 Arcida - Arcidae
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
Hinnites sp. Defrance 1821 scallop
Chlamys sp. Röding 1798 scallop
 Ostreida - Malleidae
Isognomon gariesensis n. sp. Kensley and Pether 1986 oyster
 Ostreida - Ostreidae
Striostrea margaritacea Lamarck 1819 oyster
 Pholadida - Corbulidae
 Cardiida - Veneridae
Chamelea krigei venus clam
 Cardiida - Mactridae
Lutraria sp. Lamarck 1799 clam
 Cardiida - Donacidae
Donax haughtoni Carrington and Kensley 1969 clam
 Carditida - Condylocardiidae