Also known as Zone a Afroboliviana afra
Where: Dakar, Senegal (14.8° N, 17.1° W: paleocoordinates 9.5° N, 21.4° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
When: Early/Lower Maastrichtian (70.6 - 66.0 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 137364: authorized by Carlos Jaramillo, entered by Gabriela Doria on 15.12.2012
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Diporites | |
Equisetopsida | |
Araucariacites sp. Cookson and Couper 1953 | |
Monocolpopollenites | |
Monocolpopollenites "sp. 1", Monocolpopollenites "sp. 2", Monocolpopollenites sp., Monocolpopollenites spheroidites
Monocolpopollenites "sp. 1" Pflug and Thomson 1953
Monocolpopollenites "sp. 2" Pflug and Thomson 1953
Monocolpopollenites sp. Pflug and Thomson 1953
Monocolpopollenites spheroidites Jardiné and Magloire 1965 | |
Multiporopollenites | |
Dicotyledoneae | |
Triorites "sp. 2" Couper 1953 | |
Angiospermae | |
Syncolporites sp. Van der Hammen 1954 mistletoe | |
Proteacidites "sp. 1" Cookson and Couper 1953
Proteacidites "sp. 2" Cookson and Couper 1953 | |
Tricolpites "sp. 9" Couper 1953
Tricolpites "sp. 10" Couper 1953
Tricolpites synstriatus Jardine and Magloire 1965 | |
Graminidites "sp. 1" Potonie 1960 bamboo |