Earth:Kalahari Deposits
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Short description: Early Cretaceous geologic formation in South Africa
| Kalahari Deposits Stratigraphic range: Aptian ~120–113 Ma | |
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| Type | Geological formation |
| Lithology | |
| Primary | Conglomerate |
| Other | Mudstone |
| Location | |
| Coordinates | [ ⚑ ] : 29°30′S 18°24′E / 29.5°S 18.4°E |
| Paleocoordinates | [ ⚑ ] 44°12′S 2°18′E / 44.2°S 2.3°E |
| Region | Western Cape |
| Country |  South Africa |
| Type section | |
| Named for | Kalahari Desert |
  Kalahari Deposits (South Africa) | |
The Kalahari Deposits is an Early Cretaceous (Aptian)[1] geologic formation in South Africa . Dinosaur remains diagnostic to the genus level are among the fossils that have been recovered from the formation.[2] The depositional environment is described as a crater lake where poorly lithified, concretionary conglomerate and volcaniclastic, intraclastic, calcareous mudstone were deposited under quiet subaqueous conditions, probably a "crater-fill succession above an olivine-melilitie intrusion".[3]
Paleofauna
- Kangnasaurus coetzeei - "Tooth, postcranial elements including a femur."[4][5]
See also
- List of dinosaur-bearing rock formations
- List of stratigraphic units with few dinosaur genera
References
- ↑ Ruiz-Omeñaca, José Ignacio; Pereda Suberbiola, Xavier; Galton, Peter M. (2007). "Callovosaurus leedsi, the earliest dryosaurid dinosaur (Ornithischia: Euornithopoda) from the Middle Jurassic of England". in Carpenter Kenneth. Horns and Beaks: Ceratopsian and Ornithopod Dinosaurs. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press. pp. 3–16. ISBN 978-0-253-34817-3.
- ↑ Weishampel, et al. (2004). "Dinosaur distribution." Pp. 517-607.
- ↑ Kangnas farm, portion Goebees at Fossilworks.org
- ↑ "Table 19.1," in Weishampel, et al. (2004). Page 417.
- ↑ Haughton, Sidney H. (1915). "On some dinosaur remains from Bushmanland". Transactions of the Royal Society of South Africa 5: 259–264. doi:10.1080/00359191509519723. https://zenodo.org/record/1430389.
Bibliography
- Weishampel, David B.; Peter Dodson, and Halszka Osmólska (eds.). 2004. The Dinosauria, 2nd edition, 1–880. Berkeley: University of California Press. Accessed 2019-02-21. ISBN:0-520-24209-2
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