Pindiga, Bauchi Province (Cretaceous of Nigeria)

Where: Nigeria (10.0° N, 11.0° E: paleocoordinates 4.8° S, 3.6° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Early/Lower Turonian (93.5 - 89.3 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Collected by R.A. Reyment; reposited in the BMNH

Primary reference: R. A. Reyment. 1954. Some new Upper Cretaceous ammonites from Nigeria. Colonial Geology and Mineral Resources 4(3):248-270 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 209706: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 11.05.2020

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Acanthoceratidae
Pseudaspidoceras paganum n. sp. Reyment 1954 ammonite