Lokpanta, Albia Province (Cretaceous of Nigeria)

Where: Nigeria (6.0° N, 7.5° E: paleocoordinates 7.9° S, 0.7° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Mammites nodosoides brachiopod zone, Eze-Aku Formation, Early/Lower Turonian (93.5 - 89.3 Ma)

• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From the Eze-Aku Shales. AGE: Early Turonian, on the basis of ammonite biostratigraphy. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From unknown position within the unit.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified shale

• ENVIRONMENT: Presumably an shallow siliciclastic marine facies.
• SPECIFIC LITHOLOGY: Shale. LITHIFICATION: Lithified, on the basis of figured specimens.

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collected by Reyment; reposited in the BMNH

• COLLECTOR: R.A. Reyment. REPOSITORY: BMNH, London

Primary reference: J. S. H. Collins. 1986. A new Stramentum (Cirripedia) from the Lower Turonian of Nigeria. Bulletin of the British Museum of Natural History 40(4):125-131 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 159897: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 11.08.2014

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Taxonomic list

• COVERAGE: Exhaustive for Cirripedia. Ammonites also known to be present. NOMENCLATURE: Authoritative publication, with relatively modern nomenclature, and identified to species-level.
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Thecostraca
 Archaeolepadomorpha - Stramentidae
Stramentum inconstans n. sp.
Stramentum inconstans n. sp. Collins 1986 barnacle
Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Acanthoceratidae
Acanthoceratidae indet.
Acanthoceratidae indet. Grossouvre 1894 ammonite