Southwest of the Mzamba River, Pondoland (Cretaceous of South Africa)

Where: Eastern Cape, South Africa (31.3° S, 29.5° E: paleocoordinates 44.4° S, 17.3° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Late/Upper Maastrichtian (70.6 - 66.0 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collected in 1901

Primary reference: R. Broom. 1912. On a species of Tylosaurus from the Upper Cretaeous beds of Pondoland. Annals of the South African Museum 7(16):332-333 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 214311: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 24.09.2020, edited by Philip Mannion

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Squamata - Mosasauridae
cf. Taniwhasaurus sp. Hector 1874 mosasaur
SAM-PK-5265
cf. Prognathodon sp. Dollo 1889 mosasaur
Chondrichthyes
 Lamniformes - Anacoracidae
Squalicorax pristodontus Agassiz 1835 crow shark
attached to CGP/1/2265