Where: Nigeria (5.2° N, 8.3° E: paleocoordinates 10.1° S, 0.7° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Odukpani Formation, Middle Cenomanian (99.6 - 93.5 Ma)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified, gray shale
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: mold/impression
Reposited in the BMNH
• specimens in the Department of Palaeontology, British Museum (Natural History), London, and in the Department of Geology, University of Ilorin, Nigeria; probably own field collection
Primary reference: P. M. P. Zaborski. 1985. Upper Cretaceous ammonites from the Calabar region, south-east Nigeria. Bull. Br. Mus. nat. Hist. (Geol.) 39(1):1-72 [M. Aberhan/S. Nurnberg]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 69627: authorized by Martin Aberhan, entered by Sabine Nürnberg on 01.03.2007, edited by Austin Hendy
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda | |
"Turrilites (Turrilites) scheuchzerianus" = Turrilites scheuchzerianus, "Turrilites (Turrilites) costatus" = Turrilites costatus
"Turrilites (Turrilites) scheuchzerianus" = Turrilites scheuchzerianus Bosc 1801 ammonite nine specimens + six additional specimens almost certainly from the same level
"Turrilites (Turrilites) costatus" = Turrilites costatus Lamarck 1801 ammonite | |
Euomphaloceras inerme, Acanthoceras rhotomagense, "Euomphaloceras cunningtoni" = Cunningtoniceras cunningtoni
Euomphaloceras inerme Pervinquière 1907 ammonite
Acanthoceras rhotomagense Brongniart 1822 ammonite
"Euomphaloceras cunningtoni" = Cunningtoniceras cunningtoni Sharpe 1855 ammonite E. cunningtoni meridionale
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Forbesiceras subobtectum Stoliczka 1864 ammonite |