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]
| Kalahari Deposits | |
|---|---|
| Stratigraphic range: Aptian ~ | |
| Type | Geological formation |
| Lithology | |
| Primary | Conglomerate |
| Other | Mudstone |
| Location | |
| Coordinates | 29°30′S 18°24′E / 29.5°S 18.4°E |
| Approximate 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) | |
Paleofauna
edit- Kangnasaurus coetzeei - "Tooth, postcranial elements including a femur."[4][5]
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ 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 (ed.). 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 (1): 259–264. Bibcode:1915TRSSA...5..259H. doi:10.1080/00359191509519723.
Bibliography
edit- 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, retrieved 2019-02-21