Also known as Zone a Gabonella levis
Where: Dakar, Senegal (14.8° N, 17.1° W: paleocoordinates 7.4° N, 21.4° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
When: Turonian (93.9 - 89.8 Ma)
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, argillaceous, calcareous lithology not reported
Size class: microfossils
Preservation: soft parts, original sporopollenin
Primary reference: S. Jardiné and H. Magloire. 1965. Palynologuie et stratigraphie du Crétacé des Bassin du Sénégal et Cote d'Ivoire. Mémoires du Bureau de Recherches Géologiques et Miniéres 32:187-245 [C. Jaramillo/G. Doria/A. Cardenas ]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 137362: authorized by Carlos Jaramillo, entered by Gabriela Doria on 15.12.2012
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Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Equisetopsida | |
Araucariacites sp. Cookson and Couper 1953 | |
Inaperturopollenites "sp. 2" Potonié 1966 | |
Monocolpopollenites | |
Monocolpopollenites spheroidites Jardiné and Magloire 1965 | |
Multiporopollenites | |
Angiospermae | |
Tricolporopollenites "sp. 3" Thomson and Pflug 1953 spurge | |
Tricolpites "sp. 2", Tricolpites "sp. 3", Tricolpites "sp. 4", Tricolpites "sp. 5", Tricolpites "sp. 6", Tricolpites reticulominutus, Tricolpites giganteus, Tricolpites gigantoreticulatus, Tricolpites microstriatus
Tricolpites "sp. 2" Couper 1953
Tricolpites "sp. 3" Couper 1953
Tricolpites "sp. 4" Couper 1953
Tricolpites "sp. 5" Couper 1953
Tricolpites "sp. 6" Couper 1953
Tricolpites giganteus Jardiné and Magloire 1965
Tricolpites gigantoreticulatus Jardiné and Magloire 1965
Tricolpites microstriatus Jardiné and Magloire 1965 |