Where: Congo-Brazzaville (4.9° S, 11.9° E)
• Paleocoordinates: 19.5° S, 8.5° E (Wright 2013)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Campanian (83.6 - 72.1 Ma)
• Contains bivalves with longer ranges, but Lombard felt that a Campanian age was most likely.
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by J. Lombard
Primary reference: J. Lombard. 1930. Céphalopodes et lamellibranches Crétacés du Congo Français. Bulletin de la Société Géologique de France, Quatrième Série 30:277-321 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 209620: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 06.05.2020
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Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
"Arca (Trigonoaca) maresi" = Cucullaea (Idonearca) maresi
"Arca (Trigonoaca) maresi" = Cucullaea (Idonearca) maresi Coquand 1880 clam | |
"Alectryonia aucapitainei" = Ambigostrea tripolitana
"Alectryonia aucapitainei" = Ambigostrea tripolitana Krumbeck 1906 oyster | |
"Alectryonia cf. semiplana" = Oscillopha dichotoma
"Alectryonia cf. semiplana" = Oscillopha dichotoma Bayle 1849 oyster | |
Plicatula hirsuta Coquand 1880 scallop | |
Anofia aro Reyment 1955 venus clam |