Cretaceous faunas from Zululand and Natal, South Africa. A new species of the ammonite genus Salaziceras Breistroffer, 1936, from the Lower Cenomanian Mzinene Formation
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2012-12
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Kennedy, William James
Klinger, Herbert Christian
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A diminutive ammonite collected by E.C.N. Van Hoepen from the Cenomanian part of the Mzinene Formation of the Skoenberg in northern KwaZulu-Natal, is described as Salaziceras simplex sp. nov., and interpreted as one of the last survivors of the genus.
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Cretaceous, Cenomanian, Salaziceras, ammonite, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa