Where: Niger (15.8° N, 4.3° E: paleocoordinates 7.5° N, 0.9° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• local area-level geographic resolution

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

• Dyrosaurid remains are noted as derived from the "Schistes papyraces’" (clayey Series) immediately overlying the late Maastrichtian "Upper Sandstones" and attributed to the Paleocene

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; muddy lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Bataafse Internationale Petroleum Maatschappij N.V.

• Collected by the Netherlands oil company Bataafse Internationale Petroleum Maatschappij N.V. and given to A. F. de Lapparent in 1963.

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 114147: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Philip Mannion on 10.08.2011

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