Where: Lindi, Tanzania (10.0° S, 39.6° E: paleocoordinates 30.1° S, 28.9° E)
When: Lindi Formation (Kilwa Group), Late/Upper Cenomanian to Late/Upper Cenomanian (99.6 - 89.3 Ma)
Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified, silty claystone
Size class: microfossils
Preservation: original calcite, replaced with calcite
Collected by Tanzania Drilling Project Expedition in 2007; reposited in the USNM
Collection methods: core, smear slide,
Primary reference: Á J. Berrocoso, K. G. MacLeod, B. T. Huber, J. A. Lees, I. Wendler, P. R. Bown, A. K. Mweneinda, C. I. Londoño, and J. M. Singano. 2010. Lithostratigraphy, biostratigraphy and chemostratigraphy of Upper Cretaceous sediments from southern Tanzania: Tanzania drilling project sites 21-26. Journal of African Earth Sciences 57:47-69 [M. Uhen/L. Petruny]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 179874: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Loren Petruny on 03.07.2016
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Coccolithophyceae | |
Micula staurophora Gardet 1955 coccolithophore
Quadrum gartneri Prins and Perch-Nielsen 1977 | |
Eiffellithus eximius Stover 1966 | |
Helenea chiastia Worsley 1971 | |
Foraminifera | |
Whiteinella aumulensis, Whiteinella aprica, Whiteinella praehelvetica, Whiteinella brittonensis, Whiteinella archaeocretacea
Whiteinella brittonensis Loeblich and Tappan 1961
Whiteinella archaeocretacea Pessagno 1967 | |
Marginotruncana schneegansi, Marginotruncana sinuosa, Marginotruncana pseudolinneiana, Dicarinella hagni, Dicarinella concavata, Dicarinella imbricata, Dicarinella asymetrica, "Marginotruncana coronata" = Globotruncana coronata
Marginotruncana pseudolinneiana Pessagno 1967
"Marginotruncana coronata" = Globotruncana coronata Bolli 1953 | |