Kao: Fossiliferous Bed 5 (Kehehe) (Cretaceous of Niger)

Also known as Libycoceras Bed 4

Where: Tahoua, Niger (15.3° N, 5.6° E: paleocoordinates 5.1° N, 0.3° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

When: Farin Doutchi Formation (Majias Group), Maastrichtian (72.1 - 66.0 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; gray claystone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: P. M. P. Zaborski and N. J. Morris. 1999. The Late Cretaceous ammonite genus Libycoceras in the Iullemmeden Basin (West Africa) and its palaeogeographical significance. Cretaceous Research 20:63-79 [L. Ivany/P. Wall/O. Alfaro]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 47115: authorized by Linda Ivany, entered by Patrick Wall on 08.02.2005

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Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Sphenodiscidae
Libycoceras crossense Zaborski 1982 ammonite
Gastropoda
  -
Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795 snail
Bivalvia
 Ostreida - Bakevelliidae
Pseudoptera sp. Meek 1873 oyster
 Ostreida - Pinnidae
Pinna sp. Linnaeus 1758 oyster
 Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
Pycnodonte sp. Fischer von Waldheim 1835 oyster
 Ostreida - Ostreidae
Acutostrea sp. Vyalov 1936 oyster
 Mytilida - Mytilidae
Modiolus sp. Lamarck 1801 mussel
 Pholadomyida - Pholadomyidae
Pholadomya sp. Sowerby 1823 clam
 Cardiida - Arcticidae
Veniella sp. Stoliczka 1870 clam
 Cardiida - Veneridae
Mesocallista sp. Cox 1952 venus clam
 Carditida - Carditidae
? Baluchicardia sp. Rutsch and Schenck 1943 clam
Malacostraca
 Decapoda -
Decapoda indet. Latreille 1802 decapod