Locality 51, north of Hluhluew, Bed 12: Late/Upper Albian, South Africa

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Tetragonitidae
Kossmatella (Kossmatella) marut (Stoliczka 1865)
Kennedy and Klinger 1979 1 specimen
(1 measurement)
Anagaudryceras pulchrum (Crick 1907)
Kennedy and Klinger 1979 13 specimens
(3 measurements)
Anagaudryceras sp. Shimizu 1934
    = Anagaudryceras buddha Forbes 1846
Kennedy and Klinger 1979
synonym of Anagaudryceras sacya
Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Desmoceratidae
Puzosia sp. Bayle 1878
Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Brancoceratidae
Mortoniceras sp. Meek 1876
Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Labeceratidae
Myloceras sp. Spath 1925
Cephalopoda - Phylloceratida - Phylloceratidae
Phylloceras (Hypophylloceras) velledae (Michelin 1834)
Kennedy and Klinger 1977 2 specimens
Subspecies: P. (H.) velledae velledae
Gymnolaemata - Cheilostomata - Electridae
Charixa cryptocauda n. sp. Taylor 1986
Taylor 1986
see common names

Geography
Country:South Africa
Coordinates: 27.9° South, 32.3° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:48.9° South, 14.0° East
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Cretaceous Epoch:Early/Lower Cretaceous
Stage:Albian 10 m.y. bin:Cretaceous 4
Key time interval:Late/Upper Albian
Age range of interval:106.20000 - 100.50000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Mzinene
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From the Mzinene Fm, which regionally overlies the Aptian-Albian Makatini Fm. THICKNESS: 30 cm thick bed within ~20 m section thickness. AGE: Albian V (=Late Albian?) based on ammonite biostratigraphy. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: Near the top of the section.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:concretionary,shelly/skeletal lithified siltstone
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: SPECIFIC LITHOLOGY: Concretions with many molluscs, presumably with siltstone matrix based on lithologies of adjacent beds. LITHIFICATION: Lithified, assumed on the basis of facies descriptions from regionally dominant lithology, and figures from subsequent publications (e.g. Kennedy and Kinger 1977).
Environment:marine indet.
Geology comments: ENVIRONMENT: No detailed environmental data reported in text.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,concretion
Degree of concentration:concentrated
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Preservation of anatomical detail:good
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Museum repositories:BMNH
Collection method comments: COLLECTORS: Collected by authors (W. Kennedy and H. Klinger) during 1970-1971. REPOSITORY: BMNH.
Taxonomic list comments:COVERAGE: Includes ammonites, brachiopods, bivalves and gastropods. Abundance data may only apply to ammonites. NOMENCLATURE: Some of faunal list derived from authoritive publications, although for the most part this is not the case and taxa lack subgeneric or species-level designations. Nevertheless, authors are specialists and nomenclature appears fairly accurate and modern.
Metadata
Database number:66016
Authorizer:A. Hendy, M. Aberhan, M. Clapham Enterer:A. Hendy, S. Nurnberg, M. Clapham
Modifier:M. Clapham Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2006-09-26 20:18:38 Last modified:2020-08-19 22:25:44
Access level:the public Released:2006-09-26 20:18:38
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

18897. W. J. Kennedy and H.C. Klinger. 1975. Cretaceous faunas from Zululand and Natal, South Africa. Introduction, Stratigraphy. Bulletin of the British Museum of Natural History 25(4):265-315 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]

Secondary references:

18898 W. J. Kennedy and H.C. Klinger. 1977. Cretaceous faunas from Zululand and Natal, South Africa. The ammonite family Phylloceratidae. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) 27(5):347-380 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]
23790 W. J. Kennedy and H. C. Klinger. 1979. Cretaceous faunas from Zululand and Natal, South Africa. The ammonite family Gaudryceratidae. Bulletin of the British Museum of Natural History (Geology) 31(2):121-174 [M. Aberhan/S. Nurnberg/M. Clapham]
73476 P. D. Taylor. 1986. Charixa Lang and Spinicharixa gen. nov., cheilostome bryozoans from the Lower Cretaceous. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History), Geology 40:197-222 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]