| Kalahari Deposits | |
|---|---|
| Stratigraphic range: Campanian-Maastrichtian ~ | |
| Type | Geological formation |
| Lithology | |
| Primary | Conglomerate |
| Other | Mudstone |
| Location | |
| Coordinates | 29°30′S 18°24′E / 29.5°S 18.4°E |
| Approximate paleocoordinates | 44°12′S 2°18′E / 44.2°S 2.3°E |
| Region | Western Cape |
| Country |  South Africa |
| Type section | |
| Named for | Kalahari Desert |
  Kalahari Deposits (South Africa) | |
The Kalahari Deposits is an Late Cretaceous (Campanian to Maastrichtian)[1][2] geologic formation in South Africa. Dinosaur remains diagnostic to the genus level are among the fossils that have been recovered from the formation.[3] 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".[4]
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- ^ Forster CA, de Klerk WJ, Poole KE, Chinsamy-Turan A, Roberts EM, Ross CF (2022). "Iyuku raathi, a new iguanodontian dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous Kirkwood Formation, South Africa". The Anatomical Record. 306 (7): 1762–1803. doi:10.1002/ar.25038. PMID 35860957. S2CID 250730794.
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