Amaika, southwest of Enyiba (Cretaceous of Nigeria)

Where: Nigeria (6.2° N, 8.1° E: paleocoordinates 9.6° S, 1.1° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Late/Upper Albian (105.3 - 99.6 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified limestone

• "Pinkish, fissile limestone" and "darker, more compact rock"

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Albert Kitson in 1912; reposited in the BMNH

Primary reference: L. F. Spath. 1928. The Albian Ammonoidea of Nigeria. The Nigerian Coalfield. Section II. Parts of Onitsha and Owerri Provinces. Geological Survey of Nigeria Bulletin 12:51-54 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 210167: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 24.05.2020

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Taxonomic list

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Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Brancoceratidae
Pervinquieria sp., Prohysteroceras sp.
Pervinquieria sp. Böhm 1910 ammonite
Prohysteroceras sp. Spath 1921 ammonite