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, silty claystone

Size class: microfossils

Collection methods: bulk, chemical, sieve

• 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, catalouge 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 70659: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Thomas Schossleitner on 02.04.2007

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