Cheit Keini, Tilemsi Valley (Paleocene to of Mali)

Also known as Rhabdognathus keiniensis type locality

Where: Mali (16.7° N, 0.4° E: paleocoordinates 8.9° N, 4.5° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Middle Paleocene to Middle Paleocene (61.7 - 55.8 Ma)

• Iullemmeden Basin

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; muddy, sandy lithology not reported

• "clay-sands"

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: S. Jouve. 2007. Taxonomic revision of the Dyrosaurid Assemblage (Crocodyliformes: Mesoeucrocodylia) from the Paleocene of the Iullemmeden Basin, West Africa. Journal of Paleontology 81(1):163-175 [M. O'Leary/M. O'Leary]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 114143: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Philip Mannion on 10.08.2011

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Taxonomic list

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Reptilia
 Loricata - Dyrosauridae
cf. Dyrosauridae indet., Rhabdognathus keiniensis n. sp., Congosaurus compressus, Phosphatosaurus sp.
cf. Dyrosauridae indet. crocodilian
MNHN TGE 4254 (cranial "morphotype 1")and MNHN TGE 4364 (cranial "morphotype 2") - two occipital regions
Rhabdognathus keiniensis n. sp. Jouve 2007 crocodilian
MNHN TGE 4031 - type (almost complete skull)
Congosaurus compressus Buffetaut 1980 crocodilian
MNHN TGE 4036 (mandibular symphysis)
Phosphatosaurus sp. Bergounioux 1955 crocodilian
CHK (Collections de l'Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Montpellier) 6, 104, 105 and 118 (jaw fragments)