KB-3, Koum Basin (Cretaceous to of Cameroon)

Also known as Rhinoceros Camp

Where: Nord, Cameroon (8.3° N, 14.5° E: paleocoordinates 8.1° S, 5.0° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Mbissirri Member (Koum Formation), Aptian to Aptian (125.0 - 100.5 Ma)

• Koum Basin, southeast of the Yola Arm

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: fluvial; red sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression, trace

Primary reference: L. L. Jacobs, K. M. Flanagan, J. Dejax and M. Brunet. 1986. Dinosaur footprints from the Lower Cretaceous of Cameroun, west Africa. In D. D. Gillette and M. G. Lockley (eds.), First International Symposium on Dinosaur Tracks and Traces, Abstracts with Program 16 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 52673: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Kaitlin Maguire on 16.08.2005, edited by Matthew Carrano

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Theropoda -
Theropoda "indet. 3"1 theropod
4 tracks
Branchiopoda
 Diplostraca -
Estheria sp.2 Ruppell 1837 clam shrimp