Where: Zinder, Niger (17.9° N, 8.9° E: paleocoordinates 4.0° N, 4.8° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Late/Upper Cretaceous (100.5 - 66.0 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Collected by Chevalier & Loubet
Primary reference: C. Arambourg and L. Joleaud. 1943. Vertébrés fossiles du bassin du Niger [Fossil vertebrates of the Niger basin]. Bulletin de la Service des Mines de l'Afrique Occidentale Française 7:28-85 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 75235: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 28.09.2007
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Osteichthyes | |
Ceratodus sp. Agassiz 1838 lungfish
Ceratodus humei Priem 1914 lungfish | |
"Ceratodus africanus" = Neoceratodus africanus
"Ceratodus africanus" = Neoceratodus africanus Haug 1905 Queensland lungfish | |
Reptilia | |
? Aegyptosuchus sp. Stromer 1933 crocodilian | |
Crocodylia indet. crocodilian | |
Actinopteri | |
Enchodus lamberti Arambourg and Joleaud 1943 | |
Osteichthyes | |
Paralepidosteus africanus n. gen. n. sp.
Paralepidosteus africanus n. gen. n. sp. Arambourg and Joleaud 1943 | |
Cylindracanthus bisulcatus Arambourg and Joleaud 1943 ray-finned fish | |
Chondrichthyes | |
Onchosaurus pharao Dames 1887 ray |