Kalahari Deposits
Stratigraphic range: Aptian
~120–113 Ma
TypeGeological formation
Lithology
PrimaryConglomerate
OtherMudstone
Location
Coordinates29°30′S 18°24′E / 29.5°S 18.4°E / -29.5; 18.4
Approximate paleocoordinates44°12′S 2°18′E / 44.2°S 2.3°E / -44.2; 2.3
RegionWestern Cape
Country South Africa
Type section
Named forKalahari Desert
Kalahari Deposits is located in South Africa
Kalahari Deposits
Kalahari Deposits (South Africa)

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]

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References

  1. ^ 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.
  2. ^ Weishampel, et al. (2004). "Dinosaur distribution." Pp. 517-607.
  3. ^ Kangnas farm, portion Goebees at Fossilworks.org
  4. ^ "Table 19.1," in Weishampel, et al. (2004). Page 417.
  5. ^ Haughton, Sidney H. (1915). "On some dinosaur remains from Bushmanland". Transactions of the Royal Society of South Africa. 5: 259–264. doi:10.1080/00359191509519723.

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