Where: Sekondi-Takoradi, Ghana (4.9° N, 2.1° W: paleocoordinates 6.2° S, 11.2° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
When: Apollonian Formation, Albian (113.0 - 100.5 Ma)
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithified sandstone and lithified limestone
Size class: microfossils
Preservation: soft parts, original sporopollenin
Primary reference: D. Atta-Peters and M. B. Salami. 2006. Aptian-Maastrichtian palynomorphs from the offshore Tano Basin, western Ghana. Journal of African Earth Sciences 43:379-394 [C. Jaramillo/G. Doria/M. Uhen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 142256: authorized by Carlos Jaramillo, entered by Gabriela Doria on 07.04.2013
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
| unclassified | |
| Equisetopsida | |
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Classopollis classoides Pflug 1953 | |
| Lycopsida | |
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Uvaesporites sp. Döring 1965 | |
| Polypodiopsida | |
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Appendicisporites sp. Weyland and Greifeld 1953 | |
| Angiospermae | |
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Afropollis jardinus Doyle et al. 1982 | |
| Ginkgoopsida | |
| Elateropollenites jardinei | |
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Elateropollenites jardinei Herngreen 1973 elaterate | |
| Dinophyceae | |
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Subtilisphaera sp. Jain and Millepied 1971 | |
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Cyclonephelium vannophorum Davey 1969 | |
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Spiniferites spp. Mantell 1850 | |
| Reyrea polymorphus | |
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Reyrea polymorphus Herngreen 1973 | |