Where: Nigeria (7.2° N, 8.2° E: paleocoordinates 6.8° S, 0.2° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Early/Lower Turonian (93.5 - 89.3 Ma)
• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From the unnamed lithostratigraphic unit. AGE: Early Turonian, on the basis of ammonite biostratigraphy. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From unknown position within the unit.
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified siliciclastic sediments
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: cast, mold/impression
Collected by Reyment; reposited in the BMNH
• COLLECTOR: R.A. Reyment. REPOSITORY: BMNH, London
Primary reference: R. A. Reyment. 1955. The Cretaceous Ammonoidea of southern Nigeria and the southern Cameroons. Geological Survey of Nigeria Bulletin 25:1-112 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 82781: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 01.08.2008
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda | |
Pseudaspidoceras sp. Hyatt 1903 ammonite | |
"Pseudotissotia (Bauchioceras) sp." = Pseudotissotia, "Gombeoceras sp." = Thomasites
"Pseudotissotia (Bauchioceras) sp." = Pseudotissotia Peron 1887 ammonite
"Gombeoceras sp." = Thomasites Pervinquiére 1907 ammonite | |
"Pseudotissotia (Wrightoceras) sp." = Wrightoceras
"Pseudotissotia (Wrightoceras) sp." = Wrightoceras Reyment 1954 ammonite |