Where: South Africa (33.5° S, 26.9° E: paleocoordinates 42.8° S, 16.5° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Bathurst Formation, Ypresian (56.0 - 47.8 Ma)

• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From Alexandria Formation, which unconformably overlies Late Cretaceous Sundays River Fm in places, and is overlain by eolian calcarenites. Unit later subdivided as Bathurst Formation (Le Roux 1989). AGE: Much discussed, although not clearly in text, to range from Miocene to Pleistocene, but also possible Eocene (see Haughton pers. comm., cited in text). King (1972) assigned a Pliocene age, but more recently an undivided Mio-Pliocene range is used. Siesser and Miles (1979) also studied the Birbury microfossils and identified at least 14 species of calcareous nannofossils and six species of planktonic foraminifera. These were mainly Paleogene forms, plus a few longer-ranging types. None were specifically Neogene. Age ranges of several of the nannofossils and foraminifera, especially Morozovella subbotinae and Chiasmolithus solitus overlap, thus indicating an Early Eocene age for the Birbury deposits. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: According to Le Roux (1989), nautilids come from a 1 m-thick unit beginning 1.95 m above the base of the outcrop.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shoreface; poorly lithified, medium-grained, calcareous sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: COLLECTOR: Unknown collector. REPOSITORY: Unknown repository.

Primary reference: A. Ruddock. 1966. The Tertiary limestone of the southern coastal regions of Cape Province, South Africa. Sedimentary Basins of the African Coasts 49-62 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 77526: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 14.01.2008

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