Where: Cameroon (4.5° N, 9.5° E: paleocoordinates 9.5° S, 1.3° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Mungo River Formation, Coniacian (89.8 - 86.3 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by E. Harbort, C. Guillemain
• Repository: Preußischen geologischen Landesanstalt, Berlin
Primary reference: L. Riedel. 1933. Die Oberkreide vom Mungofluß in Kamerun und ihre Fauna. Beiträge zur Geologischen Erforschung der Deutschen Schutzgebiete 16:1-154 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 209666: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 09.05.2020
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
Pleurotoma aff. faxensis Ravn 1908 turrid | |
Bivalvia | |
? Tellina sp. Linnaeus 1758 tellin clam | |
"Lopatinia lens" = Pseudocucullaea lens
"Lopatinia lens" = Pseudocucullaea lens Solger 1903 clam | |
Trigonarca sp. Conrad 1862 clam
Trigonarca angolensis Rennie 1929 clam | |
Cephalopoda | |
Tissotia (Paratissotia) aff. djelfensis Peron 1897 ammonite |