Where: Cote D'Ivoire (5.1° N, 5.6° W: paleocoordinates 0.6° S, 11.9° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Falaises de Fresco Formation, Ypresian (56.0 - 47.8 Ma)

• Globorotalia pseudomenardii to G. velascoensis zones, according to planktonic foraminifera in Lys (1961). A probable Eocene age as suggested by Rémy (1960). Recently, this Ypresian age estimation was confirmed by Dibo et al., 2021).

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; glauconitic, calcareous sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by F. Tessier; reposited in the MNHN

Primary reference: S. Barta-Calmus. 1969. Études paléontologiques et géologiques sur le Falaises de Fresco (Côte d'Ivoire). Bulletin du Muséum national d'histoire naturelle 41(3):817-832 [W. Kiessling/A. Girndt/A. Girndt]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 209340: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 29.04.2020

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