Kalahari Deposits
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]
| Kalahari Deposits Stratigraphic range: Late Cretaceous | |
|---|---|
| Type | Geological formation |
| Lithology | |
| Primary | Conglomerate |
| Other | Mudstone |
| Location | |
| Coordinates | 29.5°S 18.4°E |
| Approximate paleocoordinates | 44.2°S 2.3°E |
| Region | Western Cape |
| Country |  |
| Type section | |
| Named for | Kalahari Desert |
  Kalahari Deposits (South Africa) | |
Paleofauna
- Kangnasaurus coetzeei (Iguanodont indet) - "Tooth, postcranial elements."[3]
See also
- List of dinosaur-bearing rock formations
References
- 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.
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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