Mingoyo-Lindi road, west of Lindi (Cretaceous of Tanzania)

Where: Tanzania (10.0° S, 39.6° E: paleocoordinates 31.1° S, 28.4° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Mantelliceras mantelli ammonoid zone, Kingongo Marls Formation, Early/Lower Cenomanian (99.6 - 93.5 Ma)

• Neostlingoceras carcitanense subzone

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, gray claystone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression, replaced with limonite

Reposited in the OUM

Primary reference: W. J. Kennedy and N. J. Morris. 2018. An early Cenomanian ammonite fauna from near Lindi, Tanzania. Cretaceous Research 87:84-101 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 193269: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 08.05.2018

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Anthozoa
 Hexacorallia -
Scleractinia indet. Bourne 1900 stony coral
"solitary ahermatypic corals"
Cephalopoda
 Phylloceratida - Phylloceratidae
 Ammonitida - Tetragonitidae
Argonauticeras sp. Anderson 1938 ammonite
Anagaudryceras sp. Shimizu 1934 ammonite
Zelandites sp. Marshall 1926 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Desmoceratidae
Puzosia (Puzosia) sp. Bayle 1878 ammonite
Puzosia (Puzosia) paronae Kilian 1900 ammonite
Desmoceras (Desmoceras) latidorsatum Michelin 1838 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Brancoceratidae
Euhystrichoceras nicaisei Coquand 1862 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Acanthoceratidae
Submantelliceras prenodosoides Boule et al. 1907 ammonite
Mantelliceras cantianum Spath 1926 ammonite
Mantelliceras mantelli Sowerby 1814 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Lyelliceratidae
Stoliczkaiella (Lamnayella) cf. juigneti Wright and Kennedy 1978 ammonite
Metascaphites thomasi Pervinquière 1907 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Forbesiceratidae
Forbesiceras sp. Kossmat 1897 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Anisoceratidae
Algerites sayni Pervinquière 1910 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Hamitidae
Hamites duplicatus Pictet and Campiche 1861 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Turrilitidae
Hypoturrilites laevigatus Coquand 1862 ammonite
Mesoturrilites corrugatus Wright and Kennedy 1996 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Baculitidae
Sciponoceras roto Cieslinski 1959 ammonite
Gastropoda
 Trochoidea - Turbinidae
Semisolarium sp. Cossmann 1915 snail
 Cerithioidea - Metacerithiidae
? Metacerithium sp. Cossmann 1906 snail
 Heterostropha - Ringiculidae
? Avellana sp. d'Orbigny 1842 snail
Bivalvia
 Nuculida -
Nuculida indet. Dall 1889 clam
 Protobranchia -
Nuculanida indet. Carter et al. 2000 clam