PK8, Libreville, bed 8 (Cretaceous of Gabon)

Where: Gabon (0.4° N, 9.5° E: paleocoordinates 13.8° S, 0.1° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Vascoceras birchbyi ammonoid zone, Early/Lower Turonian (93.5 - 89.3 Ma)

• Correlated with North American Vascoceras birchbyi zone

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, argillaceous, conglomeratic limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: C. Meister, M. Mbina Mounguengui, and J. Lang. 2003. Les ammonites du Cénomano-Turonien du bassin côtier nord-gabonais: systématique et intérêt paléogéographique pour la liaison Téthys-Atlantique Sud. Revue de Paléobiologie, Genève 22:341-355 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 175457: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 12.12.2015

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Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Pseudotissotiidae
"Pseudotissotia" nigeriensis Woods 1911 ammonite