Where: Mauritania (25.4° N, 12.0° W: paleocoordinates 66.0° S, 113.9° E)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Early/Lower Cambrian (538.8 - 509.0 Ma)
• Argiles à Acrothele, 6 m thick.
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, micaceous shale
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by J. Sougy in 1955
Primary reference: C. Poulsen. 1960. Notes on some Lower Cambrian fossils from French West Africa. Matematisk-Fysiske Meddelelser udgivet af Det Kongelige Danske Videnskabernes Selskab 32(7):1-12 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 209265: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 27.04.2020
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Lingulata | |
Lingulella cf. fuchsi Redlich 1899 | |
Acrothele sougyi n. sp., Acrothele spinulosa n. sp.
Acrothele sougyi n. sp. Poulsen 1960
Acrothele spinulosa n. sp. Poulsen 1960 | |
Neobolus cf. warthi Waagen 1885 | |
Trilobita | |
? Redlichia sp. Cossmann 1902 trilobite |