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Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	Not linked to a GBIF record.
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	343843	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=343843

Rank

genus (PBDB)

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Natalites

Classification
(PBDB,GBIF)

Rank	Name	Author
genus	Natalites

Status (PBDB)

extinct

First Recorded Appearance

89.3 - 85.8 Ma
Late/Upper Cretaceous

Last Recorded Appearance

83.5 - 70.6 Ma
Late/Upper Cretaceous

Primary Reference (PBDB)

R. A. Henderson. 1970. Ammonoidea from the Mata Series (Santonian-Maastrichtian) of New Zealand. Special Papers in Palaeontology 6:1-82

Fossil Distribution

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1954	Kossmaticeras (Natalites) Collignon
1970	Kossmaticeras (Natalites) Henderson p. 37
1973	Kossmaticeras (Natalites) Kennedy et al. p. 101
1985	Kossmaticeras (Natalites) Kennedy and Klinger p. 192
1985	Kossmaticeras (Natalites) Klinger p. 7
1993	Kossmaticeras (Natalites) Ward and Kennedy p. 30
2010	Kossmaticeras (Natalites) Salazar et al. p. 204

References

Henderson R. A. (1970) Ammonoidea from the Mata Series (Santonian-Maastrichtian) of New Zealand, Special Papers in Palaeontology 6, 1-82

Kennedy W. J., Kauffman E. G., et al (1973) Upper Cretaceous Invertebrate Faunas from Durban, South Africa, Geological Society of South Africa Transactions 76 2, 95-111

Kennedy W. J., Klinger H. C. (1985) Cretaceous faunas from Zululand and Natal, South Africa. The ammonite family Kossmaticeratidae, Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History), Geology 95 5, 165-231

Klinger H. C. (1985) Upper Cretaceous Cephalopoda from offshore deposits off the Natal south coast, South Africa., Palaeontologia Africana 26 1, 1-11

Ward P. D., Kennedy W. J. (1993) Maastrichtian ammonites from the Biscay region (France, Spain), The Paleontological Society Memoir 34, 1-58

Salazar C., Stinnesbeck W., et al (2010) Ammonites from the Maastrichtian (Upper Cretaceous) Quiriquina Formation in central Chile, Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Abhandlungen 257, 181-236

Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!

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