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
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 | |
Baculites boulei Collignon 1931 ammonite | |
Gastropoda | |
Semisolarium bailyi snail | |
? Tudicla geversi snail | |
Turritella bonei turret shell | |
Pugnellus sp. Conrad 1860 snail | |
Volutilithes scalaris volute | |
"Proficus capensis" = Priscoficus
"Proficus capensis" = Priscoficus fig shell | |
"Gyrodes tenellus" = Gyrodes (Gyrodes) tenellus
"Gyrodes tenellus" = Gyrodes (Gyrodes) tenellus Stoliczka 1868 moon snail | |
"Actaeonella (Troachactaeon) woodsi" = Acteonella
"Actaeonella (Troachactaeon) woodsi" = Acteonella snail | |
Avellana perampla snail | |
Bivalvia | |
Nordenskjoldia natalensis Baily 1855 clam | |
Glycymeris africana clam | |
Inoceramus expansus Bailly 1855 clam | |
"Camptonectes cf. curvatus" = Camptonectes virgatus
"Camptonectes cf. curvatus" = Camptonectes virgatus Nilsson 1827 scallop | |
Neithea quinquecostata Sowerby 1814 scallop | |
Pycnodonta vesicularis Lamarck 1806 oyster
Exogyra sp. Say 1820 oyster | |
Pleuromya africana clam | |
Veniella forbesiana Stoliczka 1870 clam
Veniella undata Conrad 1852 clam | |
Acanthocardia cf. griesbachi cockle
Protocardia hillana Sowerby 1813 cockle | |
Palaeomoera haughtoni tellin clam | |
Astarte sp. Sowerby 1816 clam
Eriphyla lenticularis Gabb 1864 clam | |
Crassatella africana clam | |
Acanthotrigonia shepstonei Griesbach 1871 clam | |
Linotrigonia elegans clam | |
Nucula kaffraria nut clam | |
Malacostraca | |
Callianassa sp. Leach 1814 decapod | |
Chondrichthyes | |
Lamna cf. gracilis Agassiz 1843 mackerel shark |