Where: Niger (14.4° N, 5.9° E: paleocoordinates 5.5° N, 0.3° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Paleocene (66.0 - 56.0 Ma)

• Found in talus at the foot of the cliff

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Capitain Lelean, Anglo-French Niger-Chad Boundary Commission in 1902-1903; reposited in the MNHN

Collection methods: surface (float)

• Bather said specimens were presented to the British Museum, but at least the echinoids are now at MNHN.

Primary reference: F. A. Bather. 1904. Eocene echinoids from Sokoto. The Geological Magazine, New Series, Decade V 1:292-304 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 97596: authorized by Alistair McGowan, entered by Laura Murdoch on 11.08.2010, edited by Matthew Clapham

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)