Inseln Elobi (Cretaceous of Equatorial Guinea)

Where: Equatorial Guinea (1.0° N, 9.5° E: paleocoordinates 14.9° S, 1.4° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Late/Upper Albian (105.3 - 99.6 Ma)

• Upper Albian based on age of species in Nigeria and Cameroon (Reyment, 1985)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, gray, argillaceous, calcareous sandstone

• Extraordinarily fine-grained, clay or marl sandstone of light gray color

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Collected by Lenz in 1874

Primary reference: L. Szajnocha. 1885. Zur kenntniss der mittelcretacischen cephalopoden-fauna der inseln Elobi an der westküste Afrika's. Denkschriften der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschafte, Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Classe 49:231-238 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 209596: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 05.05.2020

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Taxonomic list

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Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Brancoceratidae
Pervinquieria margaritata1, "Schloenbachia elobiensis n. sp." = Elobiceras elobiensis, Elobiceras szajnochai n. sp.2, "Schloenbachia inflatiformis n. sp." = Subschloenbachia inflatiformis
Pervinquieria margaritata1 Haas 1942 ammonite
Specimen of Schloenbachia inflata in pl 2, fig 2
"Schloenbachia elobiensis n. sp." = Elobiceras elobiensis Szajnocha 1885 ammonite
Elobiceras szajnochai n. sp.2 Spath 1922 ammonite
"Schloenbachia inflatiformis n. sp." = Subschloenbachia inflatiformis Szajnocha 1885 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Schloenbachiidae
Schloenbachia lenzi n. sp.
Schloenbachia lenzi n. sp. Szajnocha 1885 ammonite
1Haas 1942; 2Spath 1922