Kalahari Deposits
| Kalahari Deposits | |
|---|---|
| Stratigraphic range: Campanian-Maastrichtian ~ | |
| Type | Geological formation |
| Lithology | |
| Primary | Conglomerate |
| Other | Mudstone |
| Location | |
| Coordinates | 29°30′S 18°24′E / 29.5°S 18.4°E |
| Approximate 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 Late Cretaceous (Campanian to Maastrichtian)[1][2] geologic formation in South Africa. Dinosaur remains diagnostic to the genus level are among the fossils that have been recovered from the formation.[3] 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".[4]
Paleofauna
[edit]- Kangnasaurus coetzeei - "Tooth, postcranial elements including a femur."[5][6]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ 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 (ed.). Horns and Beaks: Ceratopsian and Ornithopod Dinosaurs. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press. pp. 3–16. ISBN 978-0-253-34817-3.
- ^ Forster CA, de Klerk WJ, Poole KE, Chinsamy-Turan A, Roberts EM, Ross CF (2022). "Iyuku raathi, a new iguanodontian dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous Kirkwood Formation, South Africa". The Anatomical Record. 306 (7): 1762–1803. doi:10.1002/ar.25038. PMID 35860957. S2CID 250730794.
- ^ 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 (1): 259–264. Bibcode:1915TRSSA...5..259H. doi:10.1080/00359191509519723.
Bibliography
[edit]- Weishampel, David B.; Dodson, Peter; Osmólska, Halszka (2004), The Dinosauria, 2nd edition, Berkeley: University of California Press, pp. 1–880, ISBN 0-520-24209-2, retrieved 2019-02-21
