Where: South Africa (34.4° S, 17.8° E: paleocoordinates 34.7° S, 16.8° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
When: Middle Miocene to Middle Miocene (16.0 - 2.6 Ma)
• "the most probable age for these skulls would be middle to early late Miocene, but we cannot completely exclude older ages. Because more reduced phosphogenic phases occurred later in the Miocene and Pliocene, some specimens might even prove to be younger."
Environment/lithology: marine; phosphorite
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: original phosphate
Primary reference: S. H. Haughton. 1956. Phosphatic-Glauconitic deposits off the west coast of South Africa. Annals of the South African Museum 42(4):329-334 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 77208: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 31.12.2007
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Mammalia | |
Xhosacetus hendeysi n. gen. n. sp.1, ? Ziphius sp., Izikoziphius rossi n. gen. n. sp.1, Berardiinae indet.1, Microberardius africanus n. gen. n. sp.1, Nenga meganasalis n. gen. n. sp.1, cf. Mesoplodon sp., Africanacetus ceratopsis n. gen. n. sp.1
? Ziphius sp. Cuvier 1824 beaked whale | |
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Chondrichthyes | |
Carcharias sp. Rafinesque 1810 sand shark | |
Carcharodon sp. Smith 1838 white shark | |
Scaphopoda | |
Dentalium sp. Linnaeus 1758 tusk shell | |
Bivalvia | |
Veneridae indet. Rafinesque 1815 venus clam | |
Cuspidaria sp. Dall 1886 clam | |
Gastropoda | |
Natica sp. Scopoli 1777 moon snail | |
? Fusus sp. Bruguière 1789 snail | |
"cf. Pleurotoma sp." = Turris
"cf. Pleurotoma sp." = Turris Röding 1798 turrid | |
? Conus sp. Linnaeus 1758 cone shell | |
cf. Pusionella sp. Gray 1847 snail | |
Xenophora sp. Fischer von Waldheim 1807 carrier shell |