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
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Chondrichthyes | |
Xiphodolamia eocaena Woodward 1889 elasmobranch | |
Narcine sp. Henle 1834 numbfish | |
Physogaleus sp. Cappetta 1980 requiem shark
Rhizoprionodon cf. ganntourensis Arambourg 1952 sharpnose shark
Abdounia sp. Cappetta 1980 requiem shark | |
Sphyrna sp. Rafinesque 1810 hammerhead shark | |
? Hemigaleidae indet. ground shark | |
Galeorhinus sp. de Blainville and Prévost 1816 school shark | |
Galeocerdo eaglesomei White 1926 tiger shark
Galeocerdo latidens Agassiz 1835 tiger shark | |
Scyliorhinus sp. Blainville 1816 cat shark | |
Ginglymostoma angolense Dartevelle and Casier 1943 nurse shark
Nebrius blanckenhorni nurse shark | |
Chiloscyllium sp. Müller and Henle 1837 carpet shark | |
Synodontaspis koeni sand tiger shark | |
Isurus praecursor Thurmond and Jones 1981 mackerel shark | |
Carcharocles debrayi mackerel shark | |
Pristis lathami Galeotti 1837 sawfish
Propristis schweinfurthi Priem 1897 sawfish | |
Rhynchobatus sp. Müller and Henle 1837 wedgefish | |
Rhinobatos sp. Link 1790 guitarfish | |
Gymnura sp. Van Hasselt 1823 stingray | |
Archaeomanta cf. melenhorsti, ? Mobula sp., Burnhamia sp., "Myliobatis cf. dixoni" = Aetomylaeus dixoni, Myliobatis sp., Leidybatis jugosus
Archaeomanta cf. melenhorsti Herman 1979 eagle ray
? Mobula sp. Rafinesque 1810 devil ray
Burnhamia sp. Cappetta 1976 eagle ray
"Myliobatis cf. dixoni" = Aetomylaeus dixoni Agassiz 1843 eagle ray
Myliobatis sp. Cuvier 1816 eagle ray
Leidybatis jugosus Leidy 1876 eagle ray | |
Dasyatis cf. jaekeli Leriche 1906 whiptail stingray | |
Coupatezia sp. Cappetta 1982 stingray
Arechia sp. Cappetta 1983 stingray
Merabatis sp. Cappetta 1983 stingray | |
Rhinoptera sp. Cuvier 1829 cownose ray | |
Actinopteri | |
Cylindracanthus sp. Leidy 1856 | |
Mammalia | |
Protocetidae indet.3, ? Carolinacetus sp.4, Togocetus traversi3, Togocetus traversei n. gen. n. sp.3
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