Dombe-Grande (couches à Bryozoaires) (Cretaceous to of Angola)

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

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Taxonomic list

Echinoidea
 Cidaroida - Cidaridae
Cidaris vafellus n. sp. de Loriol 1888 pencil urchin
 Salenioida - Saleniidae
"Salenia dombeensis" = Leptosalenia sergipensis
"Salenia dombeensis" = Leptosalenia sergipensis White 1887 sea urchin
Bivalvia
 Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
"Ostrea cf. canaliculata" = Gryphaeostrea canaliculata
"Ostrea cf. canaliculata" = Gryphaeostrea canaliculata Sowerby 1813 oyster