Tewrou Poram (Senegal10) (Eocene of Senegal)

Where: Senegal (14.6° N, 15.9° W: paleocoordinates 11.5° N, 20.5° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Lam-Lam Formation, Lutetian (47.8 - 41.3 Ma)

• shallow marine with littoral and lagunal conditions

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; limestone

• yellow limestone coquina; an altered biosparite limestone with mixed chemical and clastic sedimentary textures

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: fossils found in rocks recovered in digging of well.

Primary reference: M. A. O'Leary, R. Sarr, R. Malou, E. H. Sow, C. Lepre and R. V. Hill. 2012. A New Fossil Amiid from the Eocene of Senegal and the Persistence of Extinct Marine Amiids after the Cretaceous–Paleogene Boundary. Copeia 2012(4):603-608 [P. Holroyd/P. Holroyd/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 192108: authorized by Patricia Holroyd, entered by Patricia Holroyd on 09.03.2018

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Taxonomic list

• molluscs, nummulites, echinoids,planktonic forams, and ostracods reported present in the stratigraphic section
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Actinopteri
 Amiiformes - Amiidae
Vidalamiinae indet.
Vidalamiinae indet. Grande and Bemis 1998 bowfin