80 feet above Catumbella Dam (Cretaceous of Angola)

Where: Angola (12.5° S, 13.6° E: paleocoordinates 29.0° S, 1.9° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Late/Upper Albian (105.3 - 99.6 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified limestone

• "white earthy limestone"

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by J.W. Gregory in 1912; reposited in the BMNH

Primary reference: J. W. Gregory. 1917. On some Cretaceous Echinoidea from the neighbourhood of Lobito Bay. Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 51:585-587 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 210777: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 18.06.2020

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Taxonomic list

Echinoidea
 Spatangoida - Spatangidae
Epiaster catumbellensis de Loriol 1888 heart urchin