Where: Nigeria (6.0° N, 7.5° E: paleocoordinates 7.9° S, 0.7° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Mammites nodosoides ammonoid zone, Eze-Aku Formation, Early/Lower Turonian (93.5 - 89.3 Ma)
• Mammites nodosoides Zone; lower Turonian
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified, black, sandy, calcareous shale
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: mold/impression
Collected by Zaborski; reposited in the BMNH
• specimens in the Department of Paleontology, British Museum (Natural History), London; probably own field collection
Primary reference: P. M. P. Zaborski. 1987. Lower Turonian (Cretaceous) ammonites from south-east Nigeria. Bull. Br. Mus. nat. Hist. (Geol.) 41(2):31-66 [M. Aberhan/S. Nurnberg/S. Nurnberg]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 69503: authorized by Martin Aberhan, entered by Sabine Nürnberg on 27.02.2007, edited by Austin Hendy
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda | |
Pachydesmoceras denisonianum Stoliczka 1865 ammonite | |
"Fagesia levis" = Fagesia peroni Pervinquiére 1907 ammonite 29 specimens + six specimens which may belong to the same species
Vascoceras venezolanum Renz 1982 ammonite
Neoptychites cephalotus Courtiller 1860 ammonite | |
Hoplitoides latefundatus Zaborski 1987 ammonite | |
"? Herrickiceras sp." = Wrightoceras
"? Herrickiceras sp." = Wrightoceras Reyment 1954 ammonite | |
Mammites nodosoides, Kamerunoceras puebloense, "Paramammites polymorphus" = Paramammites polymorphum
Mammites nodosoides Schlüter 1871 ammonite
Kamerunoceras puebloense Cobban and Scott 1972 ammonite four specimens + two specimens which may belong to the same species
"Paramammites polymorphus" = Paramammites polymorphum Pervinquiére 1907 ammonite | |
Phylloceras (Hypophylloceras) cf. bizonatum Fritsch 1872 ammonite |