Pretty Sally Mine, Ameka (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)

• Middle of the Upper Albian, zone 4.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified shale

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Collected by A. Kitson; reposited in the BMNH

Primary reference: R. A. Reyment. 1955. The Cretaceous Ammonoidea of southern Nigeria and the southern Cameroons. Geological Survey of Nigeria Bulletin 25:1-112 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 210682: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 13.06.2020

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Brancoceratidae
Elobiceras lobitoense Crick 1922 ammonite