Where: Tanzania (9.6° S, 39.3° E: paleocoordinates 32.3° S, 19.6° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Deshayesites weissi ammonoid zone, Early/Lower Aptian (121.4 - 122.5 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified shale
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: mold/impression, original calcite
Collected by Forster, Weier; reposited in the BSP
Primary reference: R. Förster and H. Weier. 1983. Ammoniten und Alter der Niongala-Schichten (Unterapt, Süd-Tanzania). Mitteilungen der Bayerischen Staatssammlung für Paläontologie und Historische Geologie 23:51-76 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 174609: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 17.11.2015
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda | |
Ancyloceras (Kutatissites) niongalense, Tropaeum sp., "Ancyloceras (Adouliceras) sp." = Audouliceras
Ancyloceras (Kutatissites) niongalense Krenkel 1910 ammonite
Tropaeum sp. Sowerby 1837 ammonite
"Ancyloceras (Adouliceras) sp." = Audouliceras Thomel 1964 ammonite | |
Procheloniceras hennigi n. sp.
Procheloniceras hennigi n. sp. Förster and Weier 1983 ammonite | |
Lytoceras subsequens Karakasch 1907 ammonite
Lytoceras schlosseri Krenkel 1910 ammonite | |
Deshayesites (Kuntziella) cf. kuntzi Collignon 1962 ammonite | |
Pseudohaploceras cf. matheroni d'Orbigny 1840 ammonite
Melchiorites cassidoides Uhlig 1883 ammonite | |
Phylloceras (Hypophylloceras) sp. Salfeld 1924 ammonite |