Cretaceous faunas from Zululand and Natal, South Africa. The ammonite subfamily Acanthoceratinae de Grossouvre, 1894

 

 

William James Kennedy^I; Herbert Christian Klinger^II

^IOxford University Museum of Natural History. Parks Road, Oxford. 0X1 3PW, U.K. E-mail: jim.kennedy@oum.ox.ac.uk
^IINatural History Collections Department, Iziko South African Museum. P.O. Box 61, Cape Town, 8000 South Africa and Department of Geological Sciences, University of Cape Town, Private Bag, Rondebosch, 7701 South Africa. E-mail: hklinger@iziko.org.za

 

 

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ABSTRACT

Ammonites of the subfamily Acanthoceratinae occur in abundance at a single locality in KwaZulu, the eastern part of the Skoenberg, on the lower reaches of the Mzinene River, north-northeast of Hluhluwe. This is the classic locality from which William Anderson collected the material described by G.C. Crick in 1907 as being from the 'deposit at the north end of False Bay.' The fossils occur weathered out on the surface; there is no section. The ammonites described below are predominantly Middle Cenomanian, with indications of the presence of lower Upper Cenomanian on the basis of records elsewhere. The following species are described: Acanthoceras flexuosum Crick, 1907 (of which Acanthoceras crassiornatum Crick, 1907, Acanthoceras munitum Crick, 1907, Acanthoceras expansum Crick, 1907, Acanthoceras robustum Crick, 1907, Acanthoceras quadratum Crick, 1907, Acanthoceras hippocastanum Crick, non J. de C. Sowerby, and Acanthoceras latum Crick, 1907, are synonyms), Acanthoceras cornigerum Crick, 1907, Protacanthoceras subwaterloti (Venzo, 1936), Cunningtonicerasl sp. a and sp. b, Calycoceras (Gentoniceras ) gentoni (Brongniart, 1822) (of which Acanthoceras paucinodatum Crick, 1907 is a synonym), Calycoceras (Newbokiiceras) asiaticum asiaticum (Jimbo, 1894), Calycoceras (Newboldiceras) asiaticum spinosum (Kossmat, 1897), Calycoceras (Newboldiceras) cf. asiaticum hunteri (Kossmat, 1897), Calycoceras [Newboldiceras) planecostatum (Kossmat, 1897), Calycoceras {Newboldiceras) laticostatum (Crick, 1907), Calycoceras (Newboldiceras) breistrofteri (Collignon, 1937) and Pseudocalycoceras harpax (Stoliczka, 1864).

Key words: ammonites, Acanthoceratinae, Cenomanian, Mzinene Formation, KwaZulu- Natal, South Africa.

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Kennedy thanks the staff of the Department of Earth Sciences, Oxford, and the University Museum of Natural History, Oxford, for technical support. The financial assistance of the Strakosh Bequest and the Oppenheimer Fund (Oxford) is acknowledged. Lorna Steel (The Natural History Museum, London) provided access to specimens in her care. Klinger acknowledges the financial aid of the NRF (South Africa) and technical staff of the Natural History Collections Department, Iziko South African Museum. The originals of Figs 1-6, 30, 31 were supplied by the photographic unit of the Natural History Museum, London.

 

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Submitted 6 January 2010
Accepted 23 April 2010