Also known as Shelly shale facies, Ameke Formation
Where: Nigeria (6.8° N, 7.1° E: paleocoordinates 1.1° N, 1.2° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Shelly Shale facies Member (Ameke Formation), Eocene (56.0 - 33.9 Ma)
• Shelly shale facies
• member-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; shelly/skeletal shale
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: original aragonite
Collection methods: bulk, quarrying,
• Collected by Arua (1986)
Primary reference: I. Arua and M. Hoque. 1989. Predatory gastropod boreholes in an Eocene molluscan assemblage from Nigeria. Lethaia 22(1):49-59 [A. Miller/A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 41394: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 13.07.2004
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Gastropoda | |
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Turritella amekiensis turret shell | |
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"Ampulina sp." = Ampullina2
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Cyrtulotibia unidigitata Newton 1922 snail | |
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Turricula africana snail | |
Conus amekiensis cone shell | |
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Hexaplex bendeica murex snail | |
"Volutocorbis multispinosa" = Athleta (Volutocorbis)
"Volutocorbis multispinosa" = Athleta (Volutocorbis) volute | |
Bonellitia amekiensis snail | |
Bivalvia | |
Arcopsis africana clam | |
Protonoetia nigeriensis Newton 1922 clam | |
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"Varicorbula amekiensis" = Corbula (Varicorbula)
"Varicorbula amekiensis" = Corbula (Varicorbula) clam | |
Callista elongatotrigona, Callista kitsoni1, "Sinodiopsis coxi" = Pelecyora (Sinodiopsis)1, Tivelina newtoni
Callista elongatotrigona Newton 1922 venus clam
Tivelina newtoni venus clam | |
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Nucula costaeimbricatis Newton 1922 nut clam |