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    Upper Cretaceous Cephalopoda from offshore deposits off the Natal South coast, South Africa
    (BERNARD PRICE INSTITUTE FOR PALAEONTOLOGICAL RESEARCH, 1985-09-07) Klinger, Herbert C
    Dredge samples off the Natal South Coast yielded an Upper Cretaceous cephalopod fauna consisting of Eutrephoceras sphaericum geinitzi Wiedmann, 1960, Phylloceras (Hypophylloceras) woodsi woodsi Van Hoepen, 1921, Partschiceras umzambiense (Van Hoepen, 1920), Saghalinites nuperus (Van Hoepen, 1921), Saghalinites cala (Forbes, 1846), Baculites bailyi Woods, 1906, 'Bostrychoceras' indicum (Stoliczka, 1865), Hyphantoceras (Madagascarites?) amapondense (Van Hoepen, 1921), Desmophyllites diphylloides (Forbes, 1846), Hauericeras sp. cf. H. gardeni (Baily, 1855), Kossmaticeras (Natalites) africanus (Van Hoepen, 1920), and Kossmaticeras (Kossmaticeras) sp. cf. K. (K.) inornatum Collignon, 1966. This fauna is similar to that of the onshore Mzamba Formation of Natal and Transkei (Pondoland), and is dated as Middle Santonian to Lower Campanian.
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    Cretaceous faunas from Zululand and Natal, South Africa. Texasia cricki Spath, 1921 (Cephalopoda: Ammonoidea) an early Santonian marker fossil from the Mzamba Formation of the Eastern Cape Province
    (Evolutionary Studies Institute, University of the Witwatersrand, 2013-12-18) Kennedy, William James; Klinger, Herbert Christian
    The type material of ‘Gen. nov. (Muniericeras?)’ cricki Spath, 1921, from the Santonian part of the Mzamba Formation , Eastern Cape Province, is revised, and referred to Texasia Reeside, 1932, of which Lehmaniceras Collignon, 1966 is a subjective junior synonym. Lehmaniceras sornayi, L. acutum, L. macer, L. pingue, L. ultimum and possibly L. gracile of Collignon, 1966, originally described from Madagascar, are further synonyms, as is Barroisiceras umzambiensis van Hoepen, 1968, which is based on a single specimen from Mzamba. The species occurs in the lower part of the Zone of Texanites hourcqi in Madagascar, confirmed here as lower, rather than middle, Santonian.