Where: Cote D'Ivoire (5.1° N, 5.6° W: paleocoordinates 0.6° S, 11.9° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Falaises de Fresco Formation, Ypresian (56.0 - 47.8 Ma)
• Globorotalia pseudomenardii to G. velascoensis zones, according to planktonic foraminifera in Lys (1961). A probable Eocene age as suggested by Rémy (1960). Recently, this Ypresian age estimation was confirmed by Dibo et al., 2021).
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; glauconitic, calcareous sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by F. Tessier; reposited in the MNHN
Primary reference: S. Barta-Calmus. 1969. Études paléontologiques et géologiques sur le Falaises de Fresco (Côte d'Ivoire). Bulletin du Muséum national d'histoire naturelle 41(3):817-832 [W. Kiessling/A. Girndt/A. Girndt]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 78687: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Antje Girndt on 14.02.2008, edited by Matthew Clapham
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa | |
"Ghirobocyathus lagaensis n. gen." = Circophyllia truncata
"Ghirobocyathus lagaensis n. gen." = Circophyllia truncata Goldfuss 1826 stony coral | |
"Turbinolia frescoensis n. sp." = Turbinolia dickersoni, "Frescocyathus tessieri n. gen." = Bathycyathus piveteaui, "Frescocyathus nagagreboensis n. sp." = Bathycyathus piveteaui
"Turbinolia frescoensis n. sp." = Turbinolia dickersoni Nomland 1916 stony coral
"Frescocyathus tessieri n. gen." = Bathycyathus piveteaui Alloiteau and Tissier 1958 stony coral
"Frescocyathus nagagreboensis n. sp." = Bathycyathus piveteaui Alloiteau and Tissier 1958 stony coral | |
Balanophyllia sp. Wood 1844 stony coral | |
Malacostraca | |
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Echinoidea | |
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