Where: Gabon (0.6° N, 9.3° E: paleocoordinates 13.2° S, 0.4° E)
• coordinate stated in text
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Aguille Formation, Coniacian to Coniacian (89.8 - 83.6 Ma)
Environment/lithology: offshore shelf; cherty/siliceous sandstone
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Primary reference: B. M. Moussavou. 2015. Bivalves (Mollusca) from the Coniacian-Santonian Anguille Formation from Cap Esterias, Northern Gabon, with notes on paleoecology and paleobiogeography. Geodiversitas 37(3):315-324 [W. Kiessling/M. Krause]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 175358: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 10.12.2015
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
"Atrina laticostata" = Pinna laticostata
"Atrina laticostata" = Pinna laticostata Stoliczka 1871 oyster | |
Plagiostoma pseudohoernesi Riedel 1933 file clam | |
Acanthocardia cf. denticulata, Granocardium "sp. 1", ? Granocardium "sp. 2", Granocardium productum, ? Protocardia sp., Protocardia cf. pauli
Granocardium "sp. 1" Gabb 1869 cockle
? Granocardium "sp. 2" Gabb 1869 cockle
Granocardium productum Sowerby 1832 cockle
? Protocardia sp. Beyrich 1845 cockle
Protocardia cf. pauli Coquand 1862 cockle | |
Agelasina plenodonta Riedel 1933 clam | |
Aphrodina dutrugei Coquand 1862 venus clam
Aphrodina gabonensis Dartevelle and Freneix 1957 venus clam
? Anofia sp. Reyment 1955 venus clam |