Kanawa (Cretaceous of Nigeria)

Where: Nigeria (10.3° N, 11.3° E: paleocoordinates 4.6° S, 4.0° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

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

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by R.A. Reyment in 1951-1953; reposited in the BMNH

Primary reference: R. A. Reyment. 1954. New Turonian (Cretaceous) ammonite genera from Nigeria. Colonial Geology and Mineral Resources 4(2):149-164 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 210211: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 26.05.2020

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Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Pseudotissotiidae
"Bauchioceras (Wrightoceras) wallsi n. sp." = Thomasites wallsi
"Bauchioceras (Wrightoceras) wallsi n. sp." = Thomasites wallsi Reyment 1954 ammonite