Loc. 12, Bombe [Mungo River Fm] (Cretaceous of Cameroon)

Where: Cameroon (4.4° N, 9.5° E: paleocoordinates 9.6° S, 1.3° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Mungo River Formation, Coniacian (89.8 - 86.3 Ma)

• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From the Mungo River Fm. AGE: Coniacian, on the basis of ammonite biostratigraphy. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From the upper part of the formation.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified limestone

• ENVIRONMENT: Presumably an shallow carbonate marine facies.
• SPECIFIC LITHOLOGY: Limestone. LITHIFICATION: Lithified, on the basis of figured specimens.

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: cast, mold/impression

Collected by Reyment; reposited in the BMNH

• COLLECTOR: Unknown. REPOSITORY: Not reported in text.

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 82789: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 01.08.2008

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• COVERAGE: Exhaustive for Ammonoidea. NOMENCLATURE: Authoritative publication, but with somewhat antiquated nomenclature. Mostly identified to species resolution.
Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Collignoniceratidae
Peroniceras czoernigi Redtenbacher 1873 ammonite
Peroniceras cocchi Meneghini 1885 ammonite
Peroniceras latelobatum Riedel 1933 ammonite
Solgerites brancoi Solger 1904 ammonite
Solgerites armatus Solger 1904 ammonite
"Forresteria (Reesideoceras) camerounensis" = Forresteria (Forresteria) camerounensis Basse 1947 ammonite
"Forresteria (Harleites) harlei" = Forresteria (Harleites) petrocoriensis Coquand 1859 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Tissotiidae
Tissotia sp. Douvillé 1890 ammonite
Tissotia polygona Solger 1904 ammonite
Tissotia latelobata Solger 1904 ammonite