Cretaceous faunas from Zululand and Natal, South Africa. The ammonite subgenus Hauericeras (Gardeniceras) Mastsumoto & Obata, 1955
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2011-12
Authors
Kennedy, William James
Klinger, Herbert James
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Bernard price Institute for Palaeontologcal Research, University of the Witwatersrand
Abstract
Four species of the distinctive desmoceratid ammonite Hauericeras (Gardeniceras) Matsumoto & Obata, 1955, are described from KwaZulu-Natal and the Eastern Cape Province: the type species, H. (G.) gardeni (Baily, 1855), from the Santonian to Lower Campanian, H.(G.) pseudoangustum Collignon, 1961, and H. (G.) madagascariense Collignon, 1961, from the Lower Campanian, and H. (G.) rembda (Forbes, 1846) from the upper Upper Maastrichtian.
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ammonites, Hauericeras (Gardeniceras), Santonian, Companian, Cretaceous, KwaZulu, Eastern Cape Province, South Africa