ammonites
Lang. E Quarry-?mbr. (Miocene to of South Africa)

Also known as ETE Locality 1047, Langebaanweg, " E Quarry, ?mbr.",

Where: South Africa (33.0° S, 18.2° E: paleocoordinates 33.5° S, 16.6° E)

When: Varswater & Bredasdorp Formation, Miocene to Miocene (23.0 - 2.6 Ma)

• ETE dating method: time_unit, ETE age comment: Dating by correl w/radiom dated sites

Environment/lithology: fluvial; phosphatic, conglomeratic, calcareous sandstone

• ETE sed env 1: coastal, ETE sed env 2: . ETE event: ., ETE env comment: "coastal marine, estuarine, eolian envts"

•JA: originally uploaded as coastal but certainly fluvial of some kind; I believe the ETE field values are erroneous

• ETE rock type adj: ., ETE lithology comments: "calcareous sands, sands with phosphate pellets, and phosphate cobbles and gravels"

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: bulk, surface (in situ)

• ETE Size: macro; ETE reference list: 632, ; ETE museum list:

Primary reference: Q. B. Hendey. 1981. Paleoecology of the late Tertiary fossil occurences in 'E' Quarry, Langebaanweg, South Africa and a reinterpretation of their geological context. Annals of the South African Museum 84(1):1-104 [K. Behrensmeyer/K. Behrensmeyer/M. Kosnik] more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 22224: authorized by Kay Behrensmeyer, entered by Kay Behrensmeyer on 04.06.1999, edited by Pat Holroyd

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