Poponguine (Paleocene of Senegal)

Also known as Popenguine; La Falaise du Bungalow

Where: Senegal (14.6° N, 17.1° W: paleocoordinates 9.6° N, 21.6° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Ndayane Formation, Danian (66.0 - 61.6 Ma)

• middle to upper Danian age

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: platform or shelf-margin reef; limestone

• middle to external platform with a water depth between 100 m and 150 m, with a muddy bottom covered with algae, receiving episodically coarse material from the infralittoral environment

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils, microfossils

Collected by Fernand Jacquet and Maurice Nicklès in 1934

Primary reference: J. E. Martin, R. Sarr, and L. Hautier. 2019. A dyrosaurid from the Paleocene of Senegal. Journal of Paleontology 93(2):343-358 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion/P. Mannion]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 198030: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Philip Mannion on 07.12.2018

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Taxonomic list

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Foraminifera
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Planorotalites compressa
 Globigerinina - Chiloguembelinidae
Chiloguembelina morsei
 Globigerinina - Truncorotaloididae
Morozovella inconstans, Morozovella pseudobulloides, Morozovella cf. trinidadensis
Reptilia
 Loricata - Dyrosauridae
Dyrosauridae indet.
Dyrosauridae indet. crocodilian
MHNT.PAL.2012.0.45; originally identified as a fossil mammal with eight vertebrae, three elongate bones, and six ribs (Malavoy, 1934). The following year, the same specimen was identified as a crocodile from Poponguine (Malavoy, 1935)