Where: Angola (13.0° S, 13.1° E: paleocoordinates 28.0° S, 4.8° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Aptian to Aptian (125.0 - 93.9 Ma)
• Age uncertain and possibly a mixture.
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by L. Malheiro in 1882-1886
Primary reference: P. Choffat and P. de Loriol. 1888. Matériaux pour l'étude stratigraphique et paléontologique de la province d'Angola. Mémoires de la Société de Physique et d'Histoire Naturelle de Genève 30(2):1-116 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 210866: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 20.06.2020
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Echinoidea | |
Cidaris vafellus n. sp.
Cidaris vafellus n. sp. de Loriol 1888 pencil urchin | |
"Salenia dombeensis" = Leptosalenia sergipensis
"Salenia dombeensis" = Leptosalenia sergipensis White 1887 sea urchin | |
Bivalvia | |
"Ostrea cf. canaliculata" = Gryphaeostrea canaliculata
"Ostrea cf. canaliculata" = Gryphaeostrea canaliculata Sowerby 1813 oyster |