Kalahari Deposits

Kalahari Deposits
Stratigraphic range: Aptian
~120–113 Ma

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Kalahari Deposits; Stratigraphic range: Aptian; ~120–113 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)

Short description: Early Cretaceous geologic formation in 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]

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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[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.

[dinosaurdistribution-2] Weishampel, et al. (2004). "Dinosaur distribution." Pp. 517-607.

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

[table-19-1-417-4] "Table 19.1," in Weishampel, et al. (2004). Page 417.

[5] 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.

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