Rio Maputo, Madebula (Cretaceous of Mozambique)

Where: Mozambique (26.8° S, 32.4° E: paleocoordinates 43.0° S, 20.7° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Early/Lower Campanian (83.5 - 70.6 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, fine-grained, glauconitic, gray, green, calcareous sandstone

• Greenish-gray, light brown weathered, glauconitic, moderately sorted, weakly calcareous fine sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the BSP

Primary reference: R. Förster. 1975. Die geologische Entwicklung von Süd-Mozambique seit der Unterkreide und die Ammoniten-Fauna von Unterkreide und Cenoman. Geologisches Jahrbuch, Reihe B 12:3-324 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 174826: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 28.11.2015

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Baculitidae
Baculites boulei Collignon 1931 ammonite
Gastropoda
 Trochoidea - Turbinidae
 Ptenoglossa - Vasidae
 Cerithioidea - Turritellidae
Turritella bonei turret shell
 Sorbeoconcha - Aporrhaidae
Pugnellus sp. Conrad 1860 snail
 Neogastropoda - Fasciolariidae
 Neogastropoda - Volutidae
 Sorbeoconcha - Ficidae
"Proficus capensis" = Priscoficus
"Proficus capensis" = Priscoficus fig shell
 Sorbeoconcha - Naticidae
"Gyrodes tenellus" = Gyrodes (Gyrodes) tenellus
"Gyrodes tenellus" = Gyrodes (Gyrodes) tenellus Stoliczka 1868 moon snail
 Heterostropha - Acteonellidae
"Actaeonella (Troachactaeon) woodsi" = Acteonella
"Actaeonella (Troachactaeon) woodsi" = Acteonella snail
 Heterostropha - Ringiculidae
Bivalvia
 Arcida - Parallelodontidae
 Arcida - Glycymerididae
 Myalinida - Inoceramidae
Inoceramus expansus Bailly 1855 clam
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
"Camptonectes cf. curvatus" = Camptonectes virgatus
"Camptonectes cf. curvatus" = Camptonectes virgatus Nilsson 1827 scallop
 Pectinida - Neitheoidae
Neithea quinquecostata Sowerby 1814 scallop
 Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
Pycnodonta vesicularis Lamarck 1806 oyster
Exogyra sp. Say 1820 oyster
 Pholadida - Pleuromyidae
 Cardiida - Arcticidae
Veniella forbesiana Stoliczka 1870 clam
Veniella undata Conrad 1852 clam
 Cardiida - Veneridae
 Cardiida - Cardiidae
 Cardiida - Tellinidae
 Carditida - Astartidae
Astarte sp. Sowerby 1816 clam
Eriphyla lenticularis Gabb 1864 clam
 Carditida - Crassatellidae
 Trigoniida - Megatrigonioidae
Acanthotrigonia shepstonei Griesbach 1871 clam
 Trigoniida - Trigoniidae
 Nuculida - Nuculidae
Malacostraca
 Decapoda - Callianassidae
Callianassa sp. Leach 1814 decapod
Chondrichthyes
 Lamniformes - Lamnidae
Lamna cf. gracilis Agassiz 1843 mackerel shark