Kalahari Deposits

Kalahari Deposits
Stratigraphic range: Late Cretaceous
Type Geological formation
Lithology
Primary Conglomerate
Other Mudstone
Location
Coordinates 29°30′S 18°24′E / 29.5°S 18.4°E / -29.5; 18.4Coordinates: 29°30′S 18°24′E / 29.5°S 18.4°E / -29.5; 18.4
Approximate paleocoordinates 44°12′S 2°18′E / 44.2°S 2.3°E / -44.2; 2.3
Region Western Cape
Country  South Africa
Type section
Named for Kalahari Desert

The Kalahari Deposits is a Late Cretaceous geologic formation in South Africa. Dinosaur remains diagnostic to the genus level are among the fossils that have been recovered from the formation.[1] 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".[2]

Paleofauna

See also

References

  1. ↑ Weishampel, et al. (2004). "Dinosaur distribution." Pp. 517-607.
  2. ↑ Kangnas farm, portion Goebees at Fossilworks.org
  3. ↑ "Table 19.1," in Weishampel, et al. (2004). Page 417.

Bibliography

  • Weishampel, David B.; Dodson, Peter; and Osmólska, Halszka (eds.): The Dinosauria, 2nd, Berkeley: University of California Press. 861 pp.  ISBN 0-520-24209-2.
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