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
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda | |
"Bauchioceras (Wrightoceras) wallsi n. sp." = Thomasites wallsi
"Bauchioceras (Wrightoceras) wallsi n. sp." = Thomasites wallsi Reyment 1954 ammonite |