Outcrop 47, Mungo River (Cretaceous of Cameroon)

Where: Cameroon (4.5° N, 9.5° E: paleocoordinates 9.5° S, 1.3° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Mungo River Formation, Coniacian (89.8 - 86.3 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by R.A. Reyment in 1953; reposited in the BMNH

Primary reference: R. A. Reyment. 1954. The stratigraphy of the southern Cameroons. Geologiska Föreningen i Stockholm Förhandlingar 76:661-683 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 209692: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 10.05.2020

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Gastropoda
 Neogastropoda - Nassariidae
Fusus climacodes Riedel 1933 snail
 Neogastropoda - Buccinidae
Strepsidura gracilis Riedel 1933 true whelk
 Neogastropoda - Muricidae
Purpura liguta Riedel 1933 murex snail
 Neogastropoda - Volutidae
Volutomorpha sp. Gabb 1877 volute
Volutomorpha horrida Riedel 1933 volute
Volutomorpha similis Riedel 1933 volute
Volutilithes cf. pseudocostata Noetling 1896 volute
 Neogastropoda - Turridae
Pleurotoma aff. faxensis Ravn 1908 turrid
Turris aff. kaffraria Woods 1906 turrid
 Sorbeoconcha - Aporrhaidae
"Pugnellus fraasi" = Gymnarus fraasi, Helicaulax latealata
"Pugnellus fraasi" = Gymnarus fraasi Riedel 1933 snail
Helicaulax latealata Riedel 1933 snail
 Cerithioidea - Turritellidae
Turritella nodosa Roemer 1841 turret shell
Turritella harborti Riedel 1933 turret shell
 Epitonioidea - Epitoniidae
Scalaria varicostata Riedel 1933 wentletrap
 Heterostropha - Architectonicidae
Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Pachydiscidae
"Parapachydiscus cf. stallauensis" = Pachydiscus stallauensis
"Parapachydiscus cf. stallauensis" = Pachydiscus stallauensis Imkeller 1901 ammonite
Bivalvia
 Arcida - Cucullaeidae
Pseudocucullaea lens Solger 1903 clam
 Arcida - Glycymerididae
Trigonarca camerunensis Riedel 1933 clam
 Myalinida - Inoceramidae
Inoceramus niger, "Inoceramus bantu" = Cataceramus bantu
Inoceramus niger Heinz 1932 clam
"Inoceramus bantu" = Cataceramus bantu Heinz 1932 clam
 Pectinida - Limidae
Lima (Plagiostoma) pseudohoernesi Riedel 1933 file clam
 Pectinida - Plicatulidae
 Mytilida - Mytilidae
 Cardiida - Cardiidae
Cardium aff. perobliquum von Koenen 1897 cockle
 Carditida - Carditidae