Fausse Pointe Noire (Cretaceous of Congo-Brazzaville)

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

• "lumachelle" or "shell bed"

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
 Arcida - Cucullaeidae
"Arca (Trigonoaca) maresi" = Cucullaea (Idonearca) maresi
"Arca (Trigonoaca) maresi" = Cucullaea (Idonearca) maresi Coquand 1880 clam
 Ostreida - Flemingostreidae
"Alectryonia aucapitainei" = Ambigostrea tripolitana
"Alectryonia aucapitainei" = Ambigostrea tripolitana Krumbeck 1906 oyster
 Ostreida - Ostreidae
"Alectryonia cf. semiplana" = Oscillopha dichotoma
"Alectryonia cf. semiplana" = Oscillopha dichotoma Bayle 1849 oyster
 Pectinida - Plicatulidae
Plicatula hirsuta Coquand 1880 scallop
 Cardiida - Veneridae
Anofia aro Reyment 1955 venus clam