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Cretaceous Faunas from Zululand and Natal, South Africa. the Ammonite Subfamily Stoliczkaiinae Breistroffer, 1953 Cretaceous faunas from Zululand and Natal, South Africa. The ammonite Subfamily Stoliczkaiinae Breistroffer, 1953 William James Kennedy Oxford University Museum of Natural History, Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3PW, and Department of Earth Sciences, South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3AN, U.K. E-mail: [email protected] & Herbert Christian Klinger Natural History Collections Department, Iziko South African Museum, P.O. Box 61, Cape Town, 8000 South Africa E-mail: [email protected] (with 23 figures) Received 6 May 2013. Accepted 18 September 2013 The representatives of the ammonite subfamily Stoliczkaiinae Breistroffer, 1953, from the Upper Albian and Lower Cenomanian part of the Mzinene Formation of northern KwaZulu-Natal are described, and the following species recognized; Neophlycticeras (Neophlycticeras) brottianum (d’Orbigny, 1841), N.(Protissotia) itierianum (d’Orbigny, 1841), Stoliczkaia (Stoliczkaia) clavigera Neumayr,1875, S.(Lamnayella) tetragona Neumayr, 1875, S.(L.) crotaloides (Stoliczka, 1864), S.(L.) sanctaecatherinae Wright & Kennedy, 1978, S.(L.) chancellori Wright & Kennedy, 1984, S.(Shumarinaia) australe sp. nov., Cenisella bonnetiana (Pictet, 1847), Zuluscaphites orycteropusi van Hoepen, 1955, Z. grandidieri (Boule, Lemoine & Thévenin, 1907), and Z. cf. helveticus Kennedy & Delamette, 1994b. Relevant representatives of the subfamily described from Madagascar are also discussed and illustrated. Key words: Cretaceous, ammonite, Albian, Cenomanian, Stoliczkaiinae, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. CONTENTS Abstract · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · 1 Neophlycticeras (P. ) itierianum· · · · · 3 Genus Cenisella· · · · · · · · · · · · · · · 10 Introduction · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · 1 Genus Stoliczkaia · · · · · · · · · · · · · · 4 Cenisella bonnetiana · · · · · · · · · · · 10 Conventions · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · 2 Stoliczkaia (S.) clavigera · · · · · · · · · 4 Genus Zuluscaphites · · · · · · · · · · 11 Ammonite Zones · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · 2 Subgenus Lamnayella· · · · · · · · · · · 6 Zuluscaphites orycteropusi Systematic palaeontology · · · · · · · 2 Stoliczkaia (L.) tetragona · · · · · · · · · 6 Zuluscaphites grandidieri Family LYELLICERATIDAE Stoliczkaia (L.) crotaloides· · · · · · · · 7 Zuluscaphites cf. helveticus · · · · · 13 Subfamily STOLICZKAIINAE · · · · · 2 Stoliczkaia (L.) sanctaecatherinae · · 8 Acknowledgements· · · · · · · · · · · · 14 Genus Neophlycticeras· · · · · · · · · · 2 Stoliczkaia (L.) chancellori · · · · · · · · 9 References · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · 14 Neophlycticeras (N.) brottianum · · · 2 Subgenus Shumarinaia· · · · · · · · · · 9 Figures 1–23· · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · 15 Subgenus Protissotia · · · · · · · · · · · 3 Stoliczkaia (S.) australe INTRODUCTION member of the Stoliczkaiinae (Kennedy & Klinger, 1993). The first record of the ammonite subfamily Stoliczkaiinae in and one of 12 species of the subfamily now recognized from northern KwaZulu-Natal dates from the work of Spath northern KwaZulu-Natal: (1921, p. 286), who recorded a fragment (SAM-PCZ19046, Neophlycticeras (Neophlycticeras) brottianum (d’Orbigny, formerly Spath’s no. 4939), from the south side of the 1841) Manuan Creek. The preservation is that of the Mzinene N. (Protissotia) itierianum (d’Orbigny, 1841) Formation on the Skoenberg, and although indeterminate to species level, the generic assignation is clear. In 1955, van Stoliczkaia (Stoliczkaia) clavigera Neumayr, 1875 Hoepen described an enigmatic ammonite from the north S. (Lamnayella) tetragona Neumayr, 1875 bank of the lower reaches of the Mzinene as Zuluscaphites S. (L.) crotaloides (Stoliczka, 1864) orycteropusi, and interpreted it as a scaphitid – a heteromorph ammonite of the family Scaphitidae. Wright (1957) placed S. (L.) sanctaecatherinae Wright & Kennedy, 1984 Zuluscaphites in the Scaphitdae with a query. It is, in fact a S. (L.) chancellori Wright & Kennedy, 1984 ZooBank: urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:34E6A050-74ED-444D-98BB-D8E330D16299 (http://www.zoobank.org) Published on the 13th of December 2013 at Sabinet, Pretoria (http://reference.sabinet.co.za/sa_epublication/afnathist) 2 African Natural History, Volume 9, 2013 S. (Shumarinaia) australe sp. nov. siphonal clavi are present throughout part or all of the Cenisella bonnetiana (Pictet, 1847) septate stage. Body chambers may retain ribbing and tuberculation, or not. A siphonal ridge may link clavi in Zuluscaphites orycteropusi van Hoepen, 1955 compressed forms. Suture with incipient adventitious lobe, Z. grandidieri (Boule, Lemoine & Thévenin, 1907) may simplify in progenic dwarf species referred to subgenus Z. cf. helveticus Kennedy & Delamette, 1994b Protissotia.’ (Kennedy & Delamette, 1994a, p. 6). Of these, ten (83%) are also known from Western Europe. We also illustrate and discuss relevant material from Discussion Madagascar described by Boule, Lemoine & Thévenin Neophlycticeras is reviewed by Kennedy & Delamette, (1906–7), Besairie (1936) and Collignon (1949, 1963). 1994a), and we have no new information to add to their account. UPPER ALBIAN AND LOWER CENOMANIAN AMMONITE ZONES Occurrence The Stoliczkaiinae described below can in most cases be Lower Upper Albian, southern England, France, Switzer- placed in the detailed ammonite zonation developed in western land, Morocco, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, Madagascar, Europe, and this is used below where appropriate: Colombia, Venezuela, Peru, Texas and, possibly, Japan. Substage Zone Neophlycticeras (Neophlycticeras) brottianum (d’Orbigny, 1841) Lower Cenomanian Mantelliceras dixoni Figs 1A–L, 2Q–V, 3, 4, 5 Mantelliceras mantelli 1841 Ammonites Brottianus d’Orbigny, p. 290, pl. 85, Praeschloenbachia briacensis (part) figs 8–10. Upper Albian Praeschloenbachia briacensis (part) 1936 Budaiceras madagascariensis Besairie, p. 199, pl. 21, Mortoniceras perinflatum fig. 14, text-fig. 13. Mortoniceras rostratum 1936 Budaiceras spathi Besairie, p. 199, pl. 21, figs 15–16. Mortoniceras fallax 1949 Neophlycticeras sexangulatum Seeley; Collignon, p. 17, pl. 1, figs 1, 2. CONVENTIONS 1949 Neophlycticeras hirtzi Collignon, p. 18, pl. 1, figs 3–5. Dimensions are given in millimetres: D = diameter; Wb = 1963 Neophlycticeras hirtzi Coll.; Collignon, p. 180, pl. 315, whorl breadth; Wh = whorl height; U = umbilicus; c = costal fig. 1336. dimension; ic = intercostal dimension. Figures in brackets 1963 Neophlycticeras madagascariense Besr.; Collignon, are dimensions as a percentage of the diameter. The suture p. 181, pl. 316, fig. 1337. terminology is that of Korn et al. (2003): E = external lobe; 1963 Neophlycticeras spathi Besr.: Collignon, p. 181, pl. 316, A = adventive lobe (= lateral lobe, L, of Kullmann & fig. 1338. Wiedmann, 1970); U = umbilical lobe; I = internal lobe. 1963 Neophlycticeras brottianum d’Orb.; Collignon, p. 183, BMNH: The Natural History Museum, London. pl. 317, fig. 1342. SAM: The South African Museum, Cape Town. 1994a Neophlycticeras (Neophlycticeras) brottianum (d’Orbigny, 1841); Kennedy & Delamette, p. 7, figs 3b–d, 5a–c, g–i, OUM: Oxford University Museum of Natural History. 6a–s, 7a–f, 8y, z (with full synonymy). 1994b Neophlycticeras (Neophlycticeras) brottianum (d’Orbigny, SYSTEMATIC PALAEONTOLOGY 1841); Kennedy & Delamette, p. 1267, figs 4.1, 4.2, 4.4, Suborder AMMONITINA Hyatt, 1889 4.5, 4.10–4.16. Superfamily ACANTHOCERATOIDEA de Grossouvre, 1894 1996 Neophlycticeras (Neophlycticeras) brottianum (d’Orbigny, Family LYELLICERATIDAE Spath, 1921 1841); Wright, p. 147, fig. 114, 1. Subfamily STOLICZKAIINAE Breistroffer, 1953 1998 Neophlycticeras brottianum (d’Orbigny, 1841); Matrion, (=Neophlycticeratinae Cooper, 1992, p. 31) Dubus & Touch, p. 19, pl. 1, figs 1–3; pl. 2, figs 1–5; text-figs 3, 4. Genus Neophlycticeras Spath, 1922 2005 Neophlycticeras brottianum (d’Orbigny, 1841); Bulot, (= Faraudiella Breistroffer, 1947, p. 88 (72); Eotropitoides Kennedy, Jaillard & Robert, p. 458, fig. 6a,b. Casey, 1965, p. 462, footnote 1) 2006 Neophlycticeras brottianum (d’Orbigny, 1841); Kennedy & Juignet in Gauthier, p. 107, pl. 46, fig. 8. Type species Ammonites brottianus d’Orbigny, 1841, p. 290, pl. 85, Type figs 8–10, by the original designation of Spath, 1922, p. 107. The holotype, by monotypy, is MNHP R4274, d’Orbigny Collection 5757, the original of d’Orbigny, 1841, pl. 85, Diagnosis figs 8–10, illustrated here as Fig. 1C–E, from the condensed ‘Small to medium-sized, with moderately involute phrag- Albian of Perte du Rhône, Ain, France. mocone, compressed to depressed, with subparallel to strongly rounded flanks and fastigiate venter. Ribs arise Material singly or in groups from umbilical bullae or not, and may SAM-PCZ22198, from the lower Upper Albian Mzinene increase by branching and intercalation; ventrolateral and Formation on the Mzinene River close to locality 51 of Kennedy & Klinger: The ammonite subfamily Stoliczkaiinae from Zululand and Natal, South Africa 3 Kennedy & Klinger (1975, p. 288), 27°53’43”S, 32°19’22”E. size. Collignon’s larger, worn specimens (1949, pl. 1, figs 4, SAM-PCZ22199 and 22200, imprecisely localized, but from 5) are illustrated here as Figs 1K,L and 5A,B,G,H, and are the Mzinene Formation on the lower reaches of the Mzinene simply complete macroconch brottianum with body cham- River. ber. The Neophlycticeras sexangulatum Seeley of Collignon, Description 1949 (p. 17, pl. 1, figs 1, 2; see Fig. 5C–F herein) are inter- SAM-PCZ22198 (Fig. 2Q–S) is almost wholly septate, and preted as compressed variants of brottianum; they occur retains traces of the original aragonitic
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