Where: Guinea-Bissau (11.7° N, 14.8° W: paleocoordinates 62.8° S, 10.0° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Bafata Group, Emsian (407.6 - 393.3 Ma)
• Bed 17-1 of Member Bf 2. "Upper Siegenian-middle Emsian" [as the traditional Siegenian includes part of the Emsian, an Emsian age is used here].
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: mold/impression
Primary reference: J. Drot and M. Villeneuve. 1985. Présence de Pleurothyrella knodi (Brachiopoda, Terebratulida Dévoniens) en Guinée-Bissau. Implications paléogéographiques. Geobios 18:525-531 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 209301: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 28.04.2020
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Taxonomic list
Rhynchonellata | |
Pleurothyrella knodi Clarke 1913 | |
Acrospiriferinae indet. Termier and Termier 1949 |