Where: Niger (19.8° N, 12.2° E: paleocoordinates 3.0° N, 6.9° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Vascoceras cauvini ammonoid zone, Zoo Baba Formation, Late/Upper Cenomanian (99.6 - 93.5 Ma)
• Nigericeras gadeni subzone
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: Repository: Muséum d'Histoire naturelle de Genève
Primary reference: C. Meister, K. Alazouma, J. Lang, B. Mathey, and A. Pascal. 1994. Nouvelles données sur les ammonites du Niger oriental (Ténéré, Afrique occidentale) dans le cadre de la transgression du Cénomanien-Turonien. Geobios 27:189-219 [L. Bulot/L. Bulot/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 175480: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 12.12.2015
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda | |
? Thomelites tenereensis Meister et al. 1994 ammonite |