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

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

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

• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From the Eze-Aku Shales. 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 shale

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. 1954. Some new Upper Cretaceous ammonites from Nigeria. Colonial Geology and Mineral Resources 4(3):248-270 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 82782: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 01.08.2008

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