Kalahari Deposits

Kalahari Deposits
Stratigraphic range: Campanian-Maastrichtian
~80–66 Ma

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Kalahari Deposits; Stratigraphic range: Campanian-Maastrichtian; ~80–66 Ma PreЄ Є O S D C P T J K Pg N
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 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

Kangnasaurus coetzeei - "Tooth, postcranial elements including a femur."^[5]^[6]

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.
↑ "Iyuku raathi, a new iguanodontian dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous Kirkwood Formation, South Africa". The Anatomical Record 306 (7): 1762–1803. 2022. doi:10.1002/ar.25038. PMID 35860957.
↑ 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. doi:10.1080/00359191509519723. Bibcode: 1915TRSSA...5..259H. https://zenodo.org/record/1430389.

Bibliography

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, https://books.google.com/books?id=vtZFDb_iw40C, retrieved 2019-02-21

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[1] 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.

[Iyuku-2] "Iyuku raathi, a new iguanodontian dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous Kirkwood Formation, South Africa". The Anatomical Record 306 (7): 1762–1803. 2022. doi:10.1002/ar.25038. PMID 35860957.

[dinosaurdistribution-3] Weishampel, et al. (2004). "Dinosaur distribution." Pp. 517-607.

[4] Kangnas farm, portion Goebees at Fossilworks.org

[table-19-1-417-5] "Table 19.1," in Weishampel, et al. (2004). Page 417.

[6] Haughton, Sidney H. (1915). "On some dinosaur remains from Bushmanland". Transactions of the Royal Society of South Africa 5 (1): 259–264. doi:10.1080/00359191509519723. Bibcode: 1915TRSSA...5..259H. https://zenodo.org/record/1430389.

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