Locality 1, Mzamba Estuary (bed 7 or 8): Early/Lower Campanian, South Africa
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda
- Ammonitida
- Sphenodiscidae
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Eulophoceras natalense
Hyatt 1903
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Cephalopoda
- Ammonitida
- Collignoniceratidae
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Submortoniceras condamyi
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Cephalopoda
- Ammonitida
- Desmoceratidae
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Hauericeras gardeni
(Baily 1855)
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recombined as Hauericeras (Gardeniceras) gardeni | |||||||
Cephalopoda
- Ammonitida
- Muniericeratidae
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Pseudoschloenbachia umbulazi
(Baily 1855)
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see common names |
Geography
Country: | South Africa |
Coordinates: | 31.1° South, 30.2° East (view map) |
Paleocoordinates: | 47.0° South, 17.0° East |
Basis of coordinate: | stated in text |
Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
Period: | Cretaceous | Epoch: | Late/Upper Cretaceous |
Stage: | Campanian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cretaceous 7 |
Key time interval: | Early/Lower Campanian | ||
Age range of interval: | 83.60000 - 72.10000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
Formation: | Umzamba | ||||
Stratigraphic resolution: | bed | ||||
Stratigraphy comments: Campanian I |
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | lithified "siliciclastic" |
Environment: | marine indet. |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body |
Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
Museum repositories: | OUM |
Collection method comments: Repository: also South African Museum |
Metadata
Database number: | 177259 | ||
Authorizer: | M. Clapham | Enterer: | M. Clapham | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
Created: | 2016-03-23 23:03:07 | Last modified: | 2016-03-23 23:03:07 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2016-03-23 23:03:07 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
58582. | W. J. Kennedy and H. C. Klinger. 2012. Cretaceous faunas from Zululand and Natal, South Africa. The Santonian-Campanian ammonite genus Eulophoceras Hyatt, 1903. African Natural History 8:30-54 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham] |