Annals of the South African Museum = Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum . ramososeptatum: Drushchitz & Kudryavtsev, 1960: 249, pi. 39 (fig. 1).Toxoceratoides royerianus: Wachendorf, 1967: 290, pi. 35 (lgs 1, 4, non fig. 5).Australiceras ramososeptatum: Forster, 1975a: 153, pi. 3 (figs 1-2), text-fig. 30. Holotype The specimen figured by Anthula (1899, pi. 14 (fig. 4a)), here refigured asFigure 51. Original at Palaeontological Institute Uppsala University (SjorgenCollection). Material SAS L7 (3) from the upper part of the section at locality 170, Mlambong-wenya Creek, Zululand. Aptian I. Des
Annals of the South African Museum = Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum . ramososeptatum: Drushchitz & Kudryavtsev, 1960: 249, pi. 39 (fig. 1).Toxoceratoides royerianus: Wachendorf, 1967: 290, pi. 35 (lgs 1, 4, non fig. 5).Australiceras ramososeptatum: Forster, 1975a: 153, pi. 3 (figs 1-2), text-fig. 30. Holotype The specimen figured by Anthula (1899, pi. 14 (fig. 4a)), here refigured asFigure 51. Original at Palaeontological Institute Uppsala University (SjorgenCollection). Material SAS L7 (3) from the upper part of the section at locality 170, Mlambong-wenya Creek, Zululand. Aptian I. Description The available specimen consists of one and a third whorls, but is sufficientlywell preserved to illustrate the australiceratid characteristics. Coiling is criocera-titid with the whorls touching, but not impressed. The whorl section is sub-quadrate to rounded in the early stages of growth, but soon becomes triangularwith a flattened dorsum, a steep umbilical wall and gently inflated flanks,converging to a rounded venter. 292 ANNALS OF THE SOUTH AFRICAN MUSEUM. Fig. 50. Australiceras ramososeptatum (Anthula, 1899). SAS L7(3) from the upper part of thesection at locality 170, Zululand, Aptian I. x 1,1. CRETACEOUS FAUNAS FROM SOUTH AFRICA 293 I /?*
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