ammonites
Kirkwood Cliffs (Cretaceous to of South Africa)

Also known as Site 6

Where: Eastern Cape, South Africa (33.4° S, 25.5° E: paleocoordinates 44.4° S, 11.5° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Kirkwood Formation (Uitenhage Group), Berriasian to Berriasian (145.5 - 136.4 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: fluvial; medium-grained, yellow sandstone and lenticular conglomerate

• "from a conglomeratic lens at the base of a thick, yellow, medium-grained sandstone found along the bottom of the cliffs"

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collected by Rich et al.; Forster, De Klerk, & Ross in 1980s, 1995

Collection methods: surface (in situ), mechanical,

Primary reference: T. H. V. Rich and P. V. Rich. 1985. Search for Gondwana Late Mesozoic mammals and birds. National Geographic Society Research Reports (1977) 18:643-649 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 88876: authorized by Matt Carrano, entered by Matt Carrano on 23.04.2009, edited by Roger Benson