Knysna, Brenton Formation, Unit IV, Western Cape (Cretaceous of South Africa)

Where: South Africa (34.0° S, 23.0° E: paleocoordinates 44.0° S, 14.2° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Brenton Formation, Late/Upper Valanginian (140.2 - 136.4 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; lithified shale and lithified limestone

• highly fossiliferous, soft grey shale yielding fossiliferous calcareous nodules, at least 6 m thick

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: M. R. Cooper. 1979. Cretaceous Trigoniidae (Mollusca, Bivalvia) from the Brenton Formation, Knysna. Annals of the South African Museum 78(6):49-67 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 64725: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 13.09.2006, edited by Austin Hendy

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Taxonomic list

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Cephalopoda
 Nautilida -
"Nautilitaceae indet." = Nautiloidea
"Nautilitaceae indet." = Nautiloidea de Blainville 1825 nautiloid
 Belemnitida - Belemnitidae
"Hibolites sp." = Belemnites (Hibolites)
"Hibolites sp." = Belemnites (Hibolites) Mayer-Eymar 1883 belemnite
 Ammonitida - Neocomitidae
Neohoploceras sp.
Neohoploceras sp. Spath 1939 ammonite
Bivalvia
 Trigoniida - Myophorelloidae
Steinmanella (Steinmanella) kensleyi n. sp.
 Ostreida - Malleidae
Isognomon brentonensis, Isognomon theseni