Mali4 (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 202358: authorized by Evangelos Vlachos, entered by Evangelos Vlachos on 09.07.2019

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Taxonomic list

Echinoidea
 Echinolampadoida - Echinolampadidae
"Oriolampas michelini" = Plesiolampas
"Oriolampas michelini" = Plesiolampas sea urchin
 Ichnofossils -
Teredolites clavatus Leymerie 1842
CNRST-SUNY 134, Round- to club- or flask-shaped cavities within fossil wood that have been infilled by sand matrix
Thalassinoides sp. Ehrenberg 1944