Taoudeni Basin upper silty unit (Cambrian of Senegal)

Where: Senegal (12.7° N, 12.5° W: paleocoordinates 74.3° S, 143.0° E)

• coordinate based on political unit

When: Early/Lower Cambrian (541.0 - 513.0 Ma)

Environment/lithology: marine; siltstone and fine-grained sandstone

Size class: microfossils

Primary reference: R. Trompette. 1996. Temporal relationship between cratonization and glaciation: The Vendian-early Cambrian glaciation in Western Gondwana. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 123:373-383 [A. McGowan/L. Murdoch]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 97595: authorized by Alistair McGowan, entered by Laura Murdoch on 11.08.2010

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Taxonomic list

Foraminifera
 Ammodiscoidea - Ammodiscidae
Glomospira sp. Rzehak 1895
Ammodiscus sp. Reuss 1862