Where: Imo, Nigeria (6.8° N, 7.1° E: paleocoordinates 1.1° N, 1.2° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
When: Ameki Formation, Eocene (56.0 - 33.9 Ma)
• The Ameki Formation consists of five lithofacies: (A) clay-shale and limstone facies, (B) silty sandstone facies, (C) bioturbated sandstone facies, (D) mudrock facies, and (E) shelly shale facies. This collection includes fossils from samples N9, N10, and N11 of lithofacies E.
• member-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; shelly/skeletal shale
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils, microfossils
Primary reference: I. Arua. 1988. Paleoecology of the Eocene Ameki Formation of southeastern Nigeria. Journal of African Earth Sciences 7(7/8):925-932 [L. Ivany/C. Visaggi/C. Visaggi]more details
Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 42655: authorized by Linda Ivany, entered by Christy Visaggi on 03.08.2004
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Foraminifera | |
Cancris sp. Monfort 1808 | |
Rotalia sp. Lamarck 1804 | |
Globothalamea | |
Valvulineria sp. Cushman 1926 | |
Cibicides sp. Monfort 1808 | |
Nonion sp. Monfort 1808 | |
Tubothalamea | |
Spiroloculina sp. d'Orbigny 1826 | |
Quinqueloculina sp. d'Orbigny 1826 | |
Anthozoa | |
Anthozoa indet. Ehrenberg 1834 | |
Reptilia | |
Testudines indet. Batsch 1788 turtle | |
Chondrichthyes | |
Myliobatis sp. Cuvier 1816 eagle ray | |
Ginglymostoma sp. Müller and Henle 1838 nurse shark | |
Odontaspis sp. Agassiz 1838 sand tiger shark | |
Gastropoda | |
Turritella amekiensis turret shell | |
Volutidae indet., "Volutocorbis multispinosa" = Athleta (Volutocorbis)
Volutidae indet. Rafinesque 1815 volute
"Volutocorbis multispinosa" = Athleta (Volutocorbis) volute | |
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Bonellitia amekiensis snail | |
Turridae indet. Swainson 1840 turrid
Amekicythara douvillei turrid
Eopleurotoma nigeriensis Newton 1922 turrid
Surculites ingens turrid | |
Turricula africana snail | |
Conus amekiensis cone shell | |
Strombidae indet. Rafinesque 1815 true conch | |
Cyrtulotibia unidigitata Newton 1922 snail | |
Naticidae indet. Guilding 1834 moon snail
Natica amekiensis moon snail | |
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Bivalvia | |
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"Varicorbula sp." = Corbula (Varicorbula)
"Varicorbula sp." = Corbula (Varicorbula) Grant and Gale 1931 clam Other genera within family may be included in count.
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Macoma sp. Leach 1819 tellin clam | |
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Ostrea sp. Linnaeus 1758 oyster | |
Scaphopoda | |
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Thecostraca | |
Balanus sp. Da Costa 1778 barnacle | |
Ostracoda | |
Basslerites sp. ostracod | |
Bythocypris sp. Brady 1880 ostracod | |
Paracypris sp. Sars 1866 ostracod | |
Cytherella sp. Jones 1849 ostracod |