Outcrop 81, Mungo River: Early/Lower Turonian, Cameroon
collected by R.A. Reyment 1953

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Coilopoceratidae
Hoplitoides gibbosulus (von Koenen 1897)
Hoplitoides ingens (von Koenen 1897)
Bivalvia - Myalinida - Inoceramidae
Inoceramus camerunensis (Heinz 1932)
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Limidae
Plagiostoma pseudohoernesi (Riedel 1933)
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Veneridae
Cytherea sp. Lamarck 1808
Cyprimeria (Cyclorisma) faba (Sowerby 1827)
recombined as Paraesa faba
see common names

Geography
Country:Cameroon
Coordinates: 4.5° North, 9.5° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:9.8° South, 0.9° East
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Cretaceous Epoch:Late/Upper Cretaceous
Stage:Turonian 10 m.y. bin:Cretaceous 6
Key time interval:Early/Lower Turonian
Age range of interval:93.90000 - 89.80000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Mungo River
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: "limestone"
Environment:carbonate indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:biostratigraphic analysis
Museum repositories:BMNH
Collectors:R.A. Reyment Collection dates:1953
Metadata
Database number:209688
Authorizer:M. Clapham Enterer:M. Clapham
Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2020-05-10 15:17:03 Last modified:2020-05-10 15:17:03
Access level:the public Released:2020-05-10 15:17:03
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
72321. R. A. Reyment. 1954. The stratigraphy of the southern Cameroons. Geologiska Föreningen i Stockholm Förhandlingar 76:661-683 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]