Kpogamé-Hahotoe (Eocene of Togo)

Where: Togo (6.3° N, 1.3° E: paleocoordinates 1.2° N, 4.6° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: P11 foram zone, Lutetian (47.8 - 41.3 Ma)

• deposits simply referred to as the Kpogame-Hahotoe phosphates

•Type locality is the highly fossiliferous stratigraphic level near the top of mining level Couche-1, the ‘‘bone-bed reposant’’ (BBR)

•Planktonic foraminiferal zone P11 in the middle Lutetian, middle Eocene (Cappetta and Traverse, 1988; zone E9 of Berggren and Pearson, 2005).

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; phosphorite

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: original phosphate

Collection methods: salvage,

Primary reference: H. Cappetta and M. Traverse. 1988. Une riche faune de Selaciens dans le Bassin a Phosphate de Kpogame-Hahotoe (Eocene moyen du Togo): Note preliminaire et precisions sur la structure et l'age du gisement. Geobios 21(3):359-365 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 32991: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 22.07.2003

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Chondrichthyes
 Myliobatiformes - Gymnuridae
Gymnura sp. Van Hasselt 1823 stingray
 Myliobatiformes - Dasyatidae
Dasyatis sp. Rafinesque 1810 whiptail stingray
sp. 1-7
Dasyatis cf. jaekeli Leriche 1906 whiptail stingray
 Myliobatiformes -
Merabatis sp. Cappetta 1983 stingray
Arechia sp. Cappetta 1983 stingray
Coupatezia sp. Cappetta 1982 stingray
 Myliobatiformes - Myliobatidae
Leidybatis jugosus Leidy 1876 eagle ray
Myliobatis sp. Cuvier 1816 eagle ray
Rhinoptera sp. Cuvier 1829 cownose ray
Burnhamia sp. Cappetta 1976 eagle ray
Archaeomanta cf. melenhorsti Herman 1979 eagle ray
? Mobula sp. Rafinesque 1810 devil ray
"Myliobatis cf. dixoni" = Aetomylaeus dixoni Agassiz 1843 eagle ray
 Odontaspidida - Lamiostomatidae
Xiphodolamia eocaena Woodward 1889 elasmobranch
 Torpediniformes - Narcinidae
Narcine sp. Henle 1834 numbfish
 Carcharhiniformes - Triakidae
Galeorhinus sp. de Blainville and Prévost 1816 school shark
 Carcharhiniformes - Hemigaleidae
 Carcharhiniformes - Scyliorhinidae
Scyliorhinus sp. Blainville 1816 cat shark
Abdounia sp. Cappetta 1980 cat shark
 Carcharhiniformes - Carcharhinidae
Physogaleus sp. Cappetta 1980 requiem shark
Rhizoprionodon cf. ganntourensis Arambourg 1952 sharpnose shark
 Carcharhiniformes - Galeocerdidae
Galeocerdo eaglesomei White 1926 tiger shark
Galeocerdo latidens Agassiz 1835 tiger shark
 Carcharhiniformes - Sphyrnidae
Sphyrna sp. Rafinesque 1810 hammerhead shark
 Orectolobiformes - Hemiscylliidae
Chiloscyllium sp. Müller and Henle 1837 carpet shark
 Orectolobiformes - Ginglymostomatidae
Ginglymostoma angolense Dartevelle and Casier 1943 nurse shark
 Lamniformes - Otodontidae
Carcharocles debrayi mackerel shark
 Lamniformes - Lamnidae
Isurus praecursor Thurmond and Jones 1981 mackerel shark
 Lamniformes - Odontaspididae
Synodontaspis koeni sand tiger shark
Synodontaspis sp. White 1931 sand tiger shark
sp. 1 & 2
 Rhinopristiformes - Rhynchobatidae
Rhynchobatus sp. Müller and Henle 1837 wedgefish
 Rhinopristiformes - Pristidae
Pristis lathami Galeotti 1837 sawfish
Propristis schweinfurthi Priem 1897 sawfish
 Rajiformes - Rhinobatidae
Rhinobatos sp. Link 1790 guitarfish
Mammalia
 Sirenia - Dugongidae
Dugongidae indet.3 Gray 1821 dugong
 Sirenia - Protosirenidae
Protosirenidae indet.3 Sickenberg 1934 sirenian
 Cetacea - Protocetidae
Protocetidae indet.3 Stromer 1908 whale
Togocetus traversei n. gen. n. sp.3 Gingerich and Cappetta 2014 whale
? Carolinacetus sp.4 Geisler et al. 2005 whale
Reptilia
 Squamata - Palaeophiidae
Palaeophis africanus2 Andrews 1924 snake
Aves
 Odontopterygiformes - Pelagornithidae
? Gigantornis sp.1 Andrews 1916 bird
Osteichthyes
 Acipenseriformes -
Cylindracanthus sp. Leidy 1856 ray-finned fish