Where: Senegal (14.6° N, 17.1° W: paleocoordinates 9.2° N, 21.4° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Maastrichtian (72.1 - 66.0 Ma)

• Informations on stratigraphy available in tessier (1946)

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: transition zone or lower shoreface; lithified marl

Preservation: original calcite

Primary reference: M. Collignon. 1949. Tessieria nouveau genre d'échinide du Maëstrichtien du Sénégal (Tessieria senegalensis, sp. nov.). Bulletin de la Société Géologique de France 19(1-3):263-267 [L. Villier/L. Villier/L. Villier]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 40784: authorized by Loic Villier, entered by Loic Villier on 01.07.2004

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