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
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda | |
Pseudotissotia (Choffaticeras) koeneni n. sp. Riedel 1933 ammonite | |
Bivalvia | |
"Lopatinia lens" = Pseudocucullaea lens
"Lopatinia lens" = Pseudocucullaea lens Solger 1903 clam | |
Plicatula hirsuta Coquand 1880 scallop |