Locality 295, NE of Lobito Bay (Cretaceous of Angola)

Where: Angola (12.3° S, 13.6° E: paleocoordinates 28.8° S, 1.7° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Late/Upper Albian (105.3 - 99.6 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified, ferruginous, shelly/skeletal limestone

• Hard limestone and a bed containing numerous small fossils converted into ironstones

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by J.W. Gregory in 1912; reposited in the BMNH

Primary reference: R. B. Newton. 1917. On some Cretaceous Brachiopoda and Mollusca from Angola, Portuguese West Africa. Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 51:561-580 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 210724: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 17.06.2020

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Taxonomic list

Rhynchonellata
 Terebratulida - Sellithyrididae
"Terebratula depressa" = Rectithyris depressa
"Terebratula depressa" = Rectithyris depressa Lamarck 1819