In Touhout (bed 12) (Cretaceous of Niger)

Also known as In Touhount

Where: Tahoua, Niger (15.4° N, 5.7° E: paleocoordinates 5.2° N, 0.5° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Dukamaje Formation, Maastrichtian (72.1 - 66.0 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marginal marine; nodular, phosphatic mudstone

• "a mudstone rich in phosphatic nodules"

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Primary reference: R. T. J. Moody and P. J. C. Suttcliffe. 1991. The Cretaceous deposits of the Iullemmeden Basin of Niger, central West Africa. Cretaceous Research 12:137-157 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 178661: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 09.05.2016

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Taxonomic list

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Chondrichthyes
 Myliobatiformes - Myliobatidae
Myliobatis sp.
Myliobatis sp. Cuvier 1816 eagle ray
teeth
Reptilia
 Crocodylia -
Crocodylia indet.
Crocodylia indet. Owen 1842 crocodilian
"debris"