Where: Cameroon (3.9° N, 10.0° E: paleocoordinates 8.8° S, 2.9° E)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Logbadjeck Formation, Early/Lower Campanian (83.5 - 70.6 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; marl
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: M. J. Ntamak-Nida, B. Ketchemen-Tandia, R. V. Ewane, J. P. Lissock, and P. Courville. 2006. Nouvelles données sur les Mollusques et autres macro-organismes campaniens de Sikoum (Centre-Est du sous bassin de Douala-Cameroun): intérêts bio-chronologiques et paléo-écologiques. Africa Geoscience Review 13(4):385-394 [R. Butler/R. Butler]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 209676: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 09.05.2020
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
Strepsidura gracilis Riedel 1933 true whelk | |
Volutilithes guillemaini Riedel 1933 volute
Volutilithes ex gr. guillemaini Riedel 1933 volute
Volutomorpha horrida Riedel 1933 volute | |
Chenopus neubaueri Riedel 1933 snail
Pugnellus bilobatus snail
"Pugnellus incertus" = Bizarrus incertus Riedel 1933 snail | |
Turritella harborti Riedel 1933 turret shell | |
Cephalopoda | |
? Nostoceratidae indet. Hyatt 1894 ammonite | |
"Texanites cf. quinquenodosus" = Texanites (Texanites) quinquenodosus
"Texanites cf. quinquenodosus" = Texanites (Texanites) quinquenodosus Redtenbacher 1837 ammonite | |
Desmophyllites cf. diphylloides Forbes 1846 ammonite | |
Bivalvia | |
"Lopatinia lens" = Pseudocucullaea lens
"Lopatinia lens" = Pseudocucullaea lens Solger 1903 clam | |
Trigonarca camerunensis Riedel 1933 clam |