Also known as Zone a Thomasinella aegytia- Globigerina planispira
Where: Dakar, Senegal (14.8° N, 17.1° W: paleocoordinates 7.0° N, 21.3° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
When: Late/Upper Cenomanian (99.6 - 93.5 Ma)
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, argillaceous, calcareous lithology not reported
Size class: microfossils
Preservation: soft parts, original sporopollenin
Primary reference: S. Jardiné and H. Magloire. 1965. Palynologuie et stratigraphie du Crétacé des Bassin du Sénégal et Cote d'Ivoire. Mémoires du Bureau de Recherches Géologiques et Miniéres 32:187-245 [C. Jaramillo/G. Doria/A. Cardenas ]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 137361: authorized by Carlos Jaramillo, entered by Gabriela Doria on 15.12.2012
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
| unclassified | |
| Monocolpopollenites | |
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Monocolpopollenites spheroidites Jardiné and Magloire 1965 | |
| Trifossapollenites | |
| Multiporopollenites | |
| Equisetopsida | |
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Classopollis sp. Pflug 1953
Araucariacites australis Cookson 1947 | |
| Galeacornea clavis | |
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Galeacornea clavis Stover 1963 elaterate | |
| Cycadopsida | |
Elaterocolpites castelanii, Elaterosporites verrucatus, Elaterosporites protensus, Elaterosporites klaszi
Elaterocolpites castelanii elaterate
Elaterosporites verrucatus Jardiné 1967 elaterate
Elaterosporites protensus Jardiné 1967 elaterate
Elaterosporites klaszi Jardiné 1967 elaterate | |
| Dicotyledoneae | |
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Triorites africaensis Jardiné and Magloire 1965 | |
| Angiospermae | |
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Tricolporopollenites "sp. 1" Thomson and Pflug 1953 spurge | |
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Tricolpites "sp. 2" Couper 1953
Tricolpites "sp. 1" Couper 1953 | |
| Lycopodiopsida | |
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Lycopodiumsporites sp. Delcourt and Sprumont 1955 clubmoss | |
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Perotrilites sp. Couper 1953 spikemoss | |
| Polypodiopsida | |
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Trilites "sp. 1" Erdtman and Couper 1947
Trilites "sp. 2" Erdtman and Couper 1947 | |
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Cicatricosisporites "sp. 2" Potonie and Gelletich 1933 | |