Mungo River, profil V, bed 3d (Cretaceous of Cameroon)

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 209668: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 09.05.2020

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Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Pseudotissotiidae
Pseudotissotia (Choffaticeras) koeneni n. sp. Riedel 1933 ammonite
Bivalvia
 Arcida - Cucullaeidae
"Lopatinia lens" = Pseudocucullaea lens
"Lopatinia lens" = Pseudocucullaea lens Solger 1903 clam
 Pectinida - Plicatulidae
Plicatula hirsuta Coquand 1880 scallop