Where: Niger (14.8° N, 5.7° E: paleocoordinates 6.5° N, 0.2° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Kalambaina Formation, Thanetian (59.2 - 56.0 Ma)

• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From unknown lithostratigraphic unit, later included within the Kalambaina Formation (Reyment, 1966). AGE: Initially middle Eocene (Lutetian) and later Early Eocene. According to Reyment (1966), the microfaunas indicate that the unit is entirely of Paleocene age. The age. The ostracode fauna is similar to that of the Ewekoro Formation of southern Nigeria, which is of late Paleocene (Thanetian, Montian) age. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From unknown position in local section.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lagoonal or restricted shallow subtidal; lithified limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: cast, mold/impression

Collected by Moll; reposited in the MNHN

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

• COLLECTOR: Not stated in text. REPOSITORY: Ecole des Mines, Paris (now at Université Claude-Bernard, Lyon).

Primary reference: H. Douvillé. 1920. L'Eocène au Soudan et au Sénégal. Bulletin du Comité d'Etudes Historiques et Scientifiques de l'Afrique Occidentale Française 2:113-171 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 83985: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 13.09.2008, edited by Matthew Clapham

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