Where: Nigeria (6.4° N, 7.8° E: paleocoordinates 7.5° S, 0.3° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

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

• uppermost Cenomanian or lowermost Turonian

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified, micaceous siltstone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Collection methods: specimens in the Department of Paleontology, British Museum (Natural History), London; probably own field collection

Primary reference: P. M. P. Zaborski. 1987. Lower Turonian (Cretaceous) ammonites from south-east Nigeria. Bull. Br. Mus. nat. Hist. (Geol.) 41(2):31-66 [M. Aberhan/S. Nurnberg/S. Nurnberg]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 69518: authorized by Martin Aberhan, entered by Sabine Nürnberg on 27.02.2007, edited by Matthew Clapham

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