Where: South Africa (33.8° S, 25.1° E)
• Paleocoordinates: 51.0° S, 7.9° W (Wright 2013)
• coordinate stated in text
• hand sample-level geographic resolution
When: Sundays River Formation, Late/Upper Valanginian (140.2 - 136.4 Ma)
• This reference: Biozone Bb: Sculptobaculites goodlandensis Zone (Partial Range Zone); Foraminifera Zone 6/7 - Epistomia caracolla/Interzone (Venter 1972); basal Sundays River Fm
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified, fine-grained, gray claystone
Size class: microfossils
Collection methods: bulk, chemical,
• samples were collected by I.R. McLachlan and C. Reabow; all specimens have been deposited in the collections of the South African Museum, Cape Town, catalogue numbers prefixed SAM-PQ-MF; original assemblage slides housed in the microfossil slide collections in SOEKOR (Pty) Ltd., in Parow, Cape Town.
Primary reference: I.K. McMillan. 2003. The Foraminifera of the Late Valangian to Hautverian (Early Cretaceous) Sundays River Formation of the Algoa Basin, Eastern Cape Province, South Africa. Annals of the South African Museum 106:1-274 [W. Kiessling/T. Schossleitner]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 70655: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Thomas Schossleitner on 02.04.2007
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Taxonomic list
Foraminifera | |
Ammobaculites sp., Ammobaculites subaequalis, Ammobaculites "sp. B", Sculptobaculites goodlandensis, Dorothia australis
Ammobaculites sp. Cushman 1910
Ammobaculites "sp. B" Cushman 1910 | |
Haplophragmoides sp. Cushman 1910
Haplophragmoides "sp. A" Cushman 1910 | |
Nodosariata | |
Lenticulina coegaensis, Lenticulina sensu lato nodosa, Lenticulina sp., "Lenticulina sensu lato muensteri" = Lenticulina munsteri
Lenticulina sp. Lamarck 1804
"Lenticulina sensu lato muensteri" = Lenticulina munsteri Roemer 1839 | |
Tubothalamea | |