Ponta das Salinas (gracile nodules) (Cretaceous of Angola)

Where: Angola (14.2° S, 12.3° E: paleocoordinates 29.9° S, 2.5° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Sciponoceras gracile ammonoid zone, Late/Upper Cenomanian (99.6 - 93.5 Ma)

• About 8 nodule horizons in 6 m of section

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified, nodular, brown siltstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: Repository: South African Museum

Primary reference: M. R. Cooper. 1978. Uppermost Cenomanian-basal Turonian ammonites from Salinas, Angola. Annals of the South African Museum 75(5):51-152 [L. Bulot/L. Bulot/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 175545: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 14.12.2015

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Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Acanthoceratidae
"Euomphaloceras (Kanabiceras) septemseriatum" = Euomphaloceras septemseriatum Cragin 1893 ammonite
Pseudocalycoceras angolaense Spath 1931 ammonite
? Tarrantoceras sp. Stephenson 1955 ammonite
? Protacanthoceras "sp. A" Spath 1923 ammonite
? Protacanthoceras "sp. B" Spath 1923 ammonite
"Pseudocalycoceras aff. haugi" = Calycoceras (Proeucalycoceras) haughi Pervinquiere 1907 ammonite
Metoicoceras gibbosum Hyatt 1903 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Desmoceratidae
Puzosia (Anapuzosia) dibleyi Spath 1922 ammonite
"Puzosia (Austiniceras) intermedia" = Mesopuzosia intermedia Kossmat 1898 ammonite
ssp. orientalis
 Ammonitida - Tetragonitidae
"Anagaudryceras cf. cassisianum" = Gaudryceras (Gaudryceras) cassisianum d'Orbigny 1850 ammonite
"Tetragonites aff. blaisoni" = Tetragonites (Tetragonites) collignoni Breistroffer 1940 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Baculitidae
Sciponoceras gracile Shumard 1860 ammonite