Where: Cape Verde (15.2° N, 23.2° W: paleocoordinates 18.6° N, 24.4° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Neocomites neocomiensiformis ammonoid zone, Morro Formation, Early/Lower Valanginian (140.2 - 136.4 Ma)

• Basal facies, middle lower Valanginian. "Co-occurrence of Vergoliceras and Kilianella leaves no doubt about the middle early Valanginian age of the assemblage (Neocomites neocomiensiformis Zone, see Company and Tavera, 2015 with references)."

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: basinal (); lithified, ferruginous limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression, replaced with limonite

Collected in 2018

• Repository: University of Manchester

Primary reference: M. Casson, L. G. Bulot, J. Jeremiah and J. Redfern. 2020. Deep sea rock record exhumed on oceanic volcanic islands: the Cretaceous sediments of Maio, Cape Verde. Gondwana Research 81:252-264 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 208623: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 07.04.2020

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