Where: South Africa (30.3° S, 17.3° E: paleocoordinates 30.4° S, 16.9° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Pliocene (5.3 - 2.6 Ma)

• Early or Middle Pliocene age (5Ma or 3.6Ma to 2.7 Ma), bearing in mind the international ratification of the new Quaternary boundary at 2.8 Ma (Gibbard et al., 2010) according with Avery and Klein (2011) citing Peher (2000)

Environment/lithology: shoreface; quartzose, brown, green, yellow sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: J. Pether. 1986. Late Tertiary and early Quaternary marine deposits of the Namaqualand coast, Cape Province: new perspectives. South African Journal of Science 82:464-470 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 74791: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 29.08.2007, edited by Patricia Holroyd

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