Monts Iguelela, bed 12 (Cretaceous of Niger)

Where: Niger (16.7° N, 5.8° E: paleocoordinates 1.6° N, 0.2° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Nigericeras gadeni ammonoid zone, Late/Upper Cenomanian (99.6 - 93.5 Ma)

• Horizon III (Thomelites? horizon)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, shelly/skeletal, sandy limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: Repository: Muséum d'Histoire naturelle de Genève

Primary reference: C. Meister, K. Alzouma, J. Lang and B. Mathey. 1992. Les ammonites du Niger (Afrique occidentale) et la transgression Transsaharienne au cours du Cénomanien-Turonien. Geobios 25:55-100 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 175447: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 12.12.2015

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Acanthoceratidae
? Thomelites tenereensis n. sp. Meister et al. 1994 ammonite