Mali3 (Cretaceous to of Mali)

Where: Mali (19.6° N, 0.2° E: paleocoordinates 10.2° N, 3.8° W)

• coordinate stated in text

When: Tichet, Ménaka, Teberemt Formation, Campanian to Campanian (83.6 - 56.0 Ma)

Environment/lithology: marine; limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected in 1999 - 2003

Primary reference: M. A. O'Leary, M. L. Bouare, K. Heilbronn, R. V. Hill, J. McCartney, J. A. Sessa, F. Sissoko, L. Tapanila, E. Wheeler and E. M. Roberts. 2019. Stratigraphy and Paleobiology of the Upper Cretaceous - Lower Paleogene Sediments from the Trans-Saharan Seaway in Mali. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 436:1-177 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 202357: authorized by Evangelos Vlachos, entered by Evangelos Vlachos on 09.07.2019

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Taxonomic list

Echinoidea
 Spatangoida - Schizasteridae
Linthia sudanensis Bather 1904 heart urchin
 Echinolampadoida - Echinolampadidae
"Oriolampas michelini" = Plesiolampas
"Oriolampas michelini" = Plesiolampas sea urchin
Gastropoda
 Sorbeoconcha - Naticidae
Crommium nigeriense Adegoke 1977 moon snail
 Ichnofossils -
Thalassinoides sp. Ehrenberg 1944
Skolithos sp. Haldemann 1840
Burrows were not collected but documented in a field photo.