Oued Tarinkat (Calcaires inférieurs à Libycoceras) (Cretaceous of Mali)

Where: Mali (19.2° N, 0.3° E: paleocoordinates 10.0° N, 3.8° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Ménaka Formation, Maastrichtian (72.1 - 66.0 Ma)

• From the "Calcaires inférieurs à Libycoceras", now the Ménaka Formation of O'Leary et al. (2019).

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by V. Pérébaskine; reposited in the MNHN

Primary reference: J. Lambert and V. Pérébaskine. 1930. Note sur quelques Échinides du Soudan. Bulletin de la Société Géologique de France, Quatrième Série 29:471-477 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 97594: authorized by Alistair McGowan, entered by Laura Murdoch on 11.08.2010

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Taxonomic list

Echinoidea
 Stomopneustoida - Stomechinidae
Echinotiara perebaskinei n. sp. Lambert 1930 sea urchin