Where: Imo, Nigeria (6.8° N, 7.1° E: paleocoordinates 1.1° N, 1.2° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

When: Ameki Formation, Eocene (56.0 - 33.9 Ma)

• The Ameki Formation consists of five lithofacies: (A) clay-shale and limstone facies, (B) silty sandstone facies, (C) bioturbated sandstone facies, (D) mudrock facies, and (E) shelly shale facies. This collection includes fossils from samples N44 and N45 of lithofacies A.

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lime mudstone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils, microfossils

Primary reference: I. Arua. 1988. Paleoecology of the Eocene Ameki Formation of southeastern Nigeria. Journal of African Earth Sciences 7(7/8):925-932 [L. Ivany/C. Visaggi/C. Visaggi]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 42651: authorized by Linda Ivany, entered by Christy Visaggi on 03.08.2004

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